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MLB preview: Ohtani and Co. hope to make Dodgers first repeat champs since '98-'00 Yankees

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani follows through on a solo home run in the third inning of a spring training baseball game against the Yomiuri Giants in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, March 15, 2025.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani follows through on a solo home run in the third inning of a spring training baseball game against the Yomiuri Giants in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)


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Shohei Ohtani will be in the batter's box for the season's first pitch Tuesday, arriving at the Tokyo Dome coronated a World Series champion. Twenty-nine other teams will be trying to dethrone his Los Angeles Dodgers, who flexed their financial might again during the offseason hoping to become the first repeat champion in a quarter-century. Blake Snell and prized rookie Roki Sasaki joined a pitching staff headed by Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who starts the opener in his native Japan against the Chicago Cubs.

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