Fans of the Athletics, San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies will be able to stream their games on a direct-to-consumer basis this season through MLB.

The Department of Defense deleted a story on its website that highlighted Jackie Robinson's military service, with the original URL redirecting to one that added the letters "dei" in front of "sports-heroes.

Sota Fujimori, a 10-year-old baseball fan in Japan, managed to land slugger Shohei Ohtani's home run ball during the Dodgers' 6-3 win over the Cubs in Tokyo on Wednesday.

The star is omnipresent in ads across his home country, but fan fervor keeps the real Ohtani out of sight.

Shohei Ohtani hit a solo homer in his return to the Tokyo Dome, Roki Sasaki threw three eventful innings in his big league debut and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 on Wednesday night to sweep the two-game series in Japan.

Since 2001, MLB's authentication team has collected and verified more than 10.5 million items.