According to the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, the city has seen about 230,000 visitors from Japan so far and expects it to be L.A.'s fifth largest overseas tourism market this year.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will play the New York Mets on Sunday night in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium. First pitch is 8:08

Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from reaching the 2024 World Series despite Shohei Ohtani failing to throw a single pitch for the team.

As a reminder, Ohtani hasn't pitched since Aug. 23, 2023. He underwent surgery on his pitching elbow less than a month later. At the time, his surgeon said it was to "repair the issue at hand and to reinforce the healthy ligament in place while adding viable tissue for the longevity of the elbow."

In September, before the regular season concluded, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said that the likelihood of Shohei Ohtani pitching in the playoffs was “not a 0% chance,” and that “anything’s possible.