The 2025 MLB regular season is here and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs are set to kick things off in Tokyo. While their two games on Tuesday and Wednesday will count, they'll return to spring training alongside the other 28 teams before the full Opening Day on March 27.

Major League Baseball 's 2025 season begins in Japan on Tuesday, with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs squaring off at the Tokyo Dome in one of the most anticipated international games ever. “It’s going to be absolutely crazy," Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez said before the teams left for Japan.

The LA Dodgers and Chicago Cubs face off in the first game of the 2025 Major League Baseball season today. Like last year, the campaign's curtain-raiser is abroad, this time in Tokyo, Japan, the homeland of Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani.