A win-or-go-home Game 5 of the National League Division Series that featured starting pitchers Yu Darvish and Yoshinobu Yamamoto — and, of course, slugger Shohei Ohtani — became Japan’s most-watched Major League Baseball playoff game ever, the league announced Thursday.

How fitting that his Bingo game of baseball fell on Oct. 17 here in the states. The 17th of every month in Oshu City, Japan, his hometown, is Ohtani Day, a date selected in honor of his uniform number. Government officials, shopkeepers, everyday townsfolk ...

In baseball-mad Japan—where Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is a national hero—the same game averaged 12.9 million viewers.

Last Friday’s decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres was the most-watched Major League Baseball postseason game on record in Japan,

Major League Baseball announced some of the Japanese TV ratings for the Los Angeles Dodgers-San Diego Padres NLDS.

Last Friday's decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series between the Dodgers and Padres was the most-watched Major League Baseball postseason game on record in Japan.