The Los Angeles Dodgers slugger crushed his 176th career homer in the third inning, breaking Hideki Matsui’s record for the most home runs hit by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball.

Most interestingly, Irabu became the first Japanese player to win a World ... due to the energy he played with. Hideki Matsui broke the mold of Japanese baseball players moving to MLB when he ...

Derek Jeter, Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui were among many to ... The 51-year-old Ichiro, Major League Baseball's first Japanese position player in 2001, had his record-studded 19-year career ...

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 ...

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Yusei Kikuchi named some generational talents on his All-time Japanese baseball team, which included Yu Darvish, Shohei Ohtani, Ichiro Suzuki, and Hideki Matsui, among other ...