MLB Tokyo Series between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers could feature a few native sons in taking the mound over the course of the two games. Cubs lefty pitcher Shota Imanaga and Dodgers ...

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(Kyodo) MESA, Arizona (Kyodo) -- Shota Imanaga is keeping his feet on the ground despite a strong rookie season as the lefty began ... The Cubs, also home to Japanese outfielder Seiya Suzuki ...

As Cubs manager Craig Counsell took questions from the press, he was asked about Japanese ... that Imanaga will start the opener, as he’s the Cubs’ best starter at the moment. Lefty Justin ...

The Chicago Cubs were the first ... that left-hander Shota Imanaga will pitch in the Tokyo Series next month. The two-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Japan marks the start of ...

The series will bring two of Japanese baseball’s biggest stars back home — Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga and Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. A matchup like this is great for the fans in ...

Cubs manager Craig Counsell told reporters in Arizona that Shota Imanaga will start on the mound in one of the games against ...

Imanaga (12-3) struck out seven and walked two, throwing 66 pitches for strikes. A 31-year-old left-hander in his first season with the Cubs after pitching in Japan for eight seasons, Imanaga has ...

The pages inside were in Japanese, too. But he learned it was left-hander Shota Imanaga’s book on pitching. “It shows you that’s what he’s like,” Hoyer said before the Cubs’ 7-1 win ...

Imanaga will start one of the first two games of the season when the Cubs face the Dodgers in Tokyo on March 18 and 19, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. This was hardly a surprise ...