He raised his glove high above his head going into the stretch a la Clayton Kershaw. He even tried to look like Sasaki, bending his back knee and lifting his front leg uncomfortably high before ...

He drew headlines for delivering an apology and candy to a batter he’d hit in the knee with ... come after for Sasaki; its echoes can be seen in his rise through the Japanese high school ranks ...

The Japanese star pitcher hasn't necessarily lived up to the high expectations surrounding him thus far. Sasaki is the third ... of the 2024 season due to left knee and left toe injuries.

Sasaki’s career high innings is 129 1/3 in 2022 ... including a 101-mph fastball that hit Willie Escala just below the left knee. The next morning Sasaki visited the Czech team’s hotel ...

"Rintaro! Rintaro!" They were hoping to get the attention of college baseball's next big thing: Rintaro Sasaki, a power-hitting legend of Japanese high school baseball, who rewrote the record ...

The trend partially continues on Wednesday, with Japanese rookie sensation Roki Sasaki scheduled to start for the Dodgers. The pitchers enjoyed very different high school careers. Yamamota ...

Sasaki can comfortably sit in the high-90s with his fastball and has a slider and splitter to round out the arsenal, which Eno Sarris' Stuff+ metric rated as a top-10 MLB mark when he pitched up ...

In fact, here are a complete list of qualified MLB starters who threw at least 70% four-seamers and splitters in 2024: Part of the appeal of Sasaki's game isn't just that he has high-end stuff ...

THE GAME: Roki Sasaki struck out five in three scoreless ... Will Smith was hit in the left knee by a pitch in the fourth inning. He stayed in the game briefly then was replaced by a pinch-runner.

He raised his glove high above his head going into the stretch a la Clayton Kershaw. He even tried to look like Sasaki, bending his back knee and lifting his front leg uncomfortably high before ...