#MLBVideos: SHOTA! YAMAMOTO! KURODA! DICE-K! The tradition of Japanese-born pitchers that wear number 18 in MLB!

SHOTA! YAMAMOTO! KURODA! DICE-K! The tradition of Japanese-born pitchers that wear number 18 in MLB!

Go to imanaga on the mound all of those Rockies will be facing a guy making his major league debut check swing did he go yes he did Gomes will retrieve it and quickly throw a first in time and there’s the first strike out in the big league career of sha

Imanaga swing and a miss and they got him on the splitter 13 pitch at bat and imanaga wins the confrontation swing and a miss struck k out eight punch outs for sha imanaga his major league debut and he has been brilliant thought six might be it for

Imanaga but as quickly as he’s gotten two outs here he might be back out there for the seventh line drive at a base hit out into center field and that is the first hit of the day for the Rockies and the fans will give shy imanaga here in his major

League debut a nice Elation well Roki corota it’s starting the game for the Dodgers this season nine wins in his rookie season but he played 10 years in the Japanese league and he strikes out to end the inning and the Cubs miss another opportunity Lee strikes out to end the

Fifth nervous you get saw off and then you get a base hit strikes out that is the third strike out for corota check swing strike three and Edmond goes down and on the mound for the Yankees it is heroki Kuroda 9 and8 with a 3.88 erra the onew swing and a

Miss and the pitch swing and a miss and Cora strikes out the side that’ll be 35 pitches he’ll throw all of his pitches swing and a miss swing and a miss swing and a miss and there he is start ice K mat suaka and that’s that in the fourth he

Just struck out the side barch sets up on the outside corner down on strikes goes Gordon so zaka executes the pitch perfectly but you can’t argue with the 17 wins Curtis th pin strikeout victim number five for dice K and here’s dice K mat suaka one andone record a big erra during the

Postseason fooled on that pitch in strike out number three waiting for it to happen here in the World Series and Matsui strikes out four on the night from mat suzaka and Tulowitzki off balance pops it up the Rockies have another chance they do nothing with it this game goes into the

Sixth inning the Rockies have stranded five and the Red Sox lead by six for euma on the year six and four record a 3.33 ER swing and a miss by doer that his strike out number nine one nothing lead swing and a miss at the Splinter

For strike three and iwakuma gets out of a jam him out look a lot off of that one at 71 milph oh boy that’s super slowmo ball got him outside corner strike three call line drive right field to Cruz a 1 2 38 13 in a row retired by aashi EA

Akuma 16 first pitch strikes one- one pitch Canó back hands Sashi wakuma through seven got a no hitter working here at safe go field 02 to Manning BR ball Seager takes his time two outs here tonight first Jackson got a read on it he’s there and strong in no hitter the fifth

In maritor history kentab baa strik him out we’re underway Maita strikes him out call strike three strike out number 10 for Kenta ma no balls two strikes swung on and Miss strike three slider down and away and Pollock was badly fooled pretty good statement right there with Maya

Coming out of the bullpen he’s faced 248 batters this year and retired 200 of them he is in the top three of the AL sa young and there’s another strike out there reic is is gone MAA picks up his second strike outut of the inning fooled him and he knew

It got him reic leaves him loaded he threw it up and MAA barks at himself as he walks off the mount just struck out a slider in the zone first strike out as a tiger for Kenta MAA and MAA does a really good job of using that outside

Part of the plate painted that slider you say Kikuchi is having quite a year 16th start and he just made his first Major League All-Star team swing and a miss strike three that a strike on number five for you say Kikuchi two pitch strike three called swing and a miss Kikuchi get him

96 oh2 pitch swing and a miss and that’s a career best 12 strikeouts for you say Kikuchi there’s the ground ball is short there’s one and there’s two ground ball to short bichette across the diamond and that will do it and a fast ball gets him looking and he’s down on strikes and

It’s swung on and missed and he got him again another swing at a curveball number seven for Kikuchi Yamamoto is a magician when he’s on the mount Yamamoto delivers on a 22 and proar is gone strikeout number one in the career of yoshinobu yamam Moto Merl swing and a

Miss and that’ll do it for the first time heading to the mounted Dodgers Stadium yoshinobu Yamamoto that’s three three pitches three strikes one out for Yoshi no Yamamoto trying to put Paul Goldman away and he does two up two down two strikeouts for Yamamoto two and two strike three swinging strikes out the

Side to begin his Dodgers Stadium debut kicks comes to the pl and induces a swinging strike out on the splitter now the payoff called strike three on the outside corner a big curve ball boy to the outside corner you couldn’t walk it up there any neater than that Yamamoto

Five innings two hits no runs no walks five strikeouts 68 pitches e

During the 1960s, the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball started giving out No. 18 to the ace of the pitching staff.

This influenced many Japanese-born pitchers to wear the number in MLB, including rookies Shota Imanaga and Yoshinobu Yamamoto!

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