The Los Angeles Dodgers landed at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Thursday afternoon (local time) and were greeted by a throng of fans who were particularly excited to welcome home Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto made his fourth and final Cactus League appearance Monday, throwing 75 pitches over five innings, allowing a run on four hits and striking out seven.

Yesterday the Dodgers announced that pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki would start the two-game series against the Cubs in Tokyo. Yamamoto, from Okayama, and Sasaki, from Rikuzentakata are both from Japan and both came to the States as high-profile international free agents.