Red Sox, A’s Japan-bound in 2008
November 2007
Major League Baseball is opening its regular season in Japan’s 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome next March. The festivities will be held five days, and will include regular-season games between the two clubs on March 25 and 26, exhibition day-night doubleheaders against Nippon Professional Baseball teams on March 22 and 23, and an off-day workout that will take place in between on March 24. The Red Sox, with former Japanese League pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, are expected to be the principal draw in Tokyo – similarly to the Yankees in 2004 when former Yomiuri Giants slugger Hideki Matsui returned for the first time wearing the famous pinstripes.
