Yoshinobu Yamamoto will take the mound in his native Japan on Tuesday as part of the MLB season opener between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs.

There is perhaps no one more interesting figure in the baseball realm right now than Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, who has a huge following from either side of the hemisphere. With the reigning World Series champions currently in Japan for the Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs,

Yoshinobu Yamamato knows what it’s like to travel across the world to take the mound for his first start of the Major League Baseball season.