LOS ANGELES--Shohei Ohtani hit his 175th home run in Major League Baseball, tying Hideki Matsui for the most by a Japan-born player with a solo shot during the first inning of the Los Angeles ...

Ichiro was MLB's first Japanese-born position player. Hideki Matsui wouldn’t arrive in ... remains one of the most marvelous campaigns in baseball history, as he banged out a majors-best 242 ...

On Tuesday, he’s expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame ... pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just ... Asked whether the success of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and others in MLB helped him make his ...