Baseball: Yamamoto gets win as Dodgers beat Cubs in MLB season opener

Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw five innings of one-run ball as the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame the absence of Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts to beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in Major League Baseball's 2025 season opener Tuesday in Tokyo.Three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani had his first hit of the season and scored in a three-run fifth inning after the game began with the first-ever Opening Day matchup between Japanese starting pitchers, Yamamoto and the Cubs' Shota Imanaga.Ohtani went 2-for-5 with a single and a double to start his eighth year in the majors, while Yamamoto (1-0) held the Cubs to three hi…READ FULL ARTICLE