All eyes were on the radar gun once Roki Sasaki fired his first Cactus League pitch on Tuesday night. The reading: 99.2 mph. That first offering set the tone for a spring debut that did not disappoint.

The Dodgers will test that floor from the outset, with Sasaki slated to pitch the latter of the two games against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo and expected to be in the starting rotation thereafter. Roberts confirmed that was still the Dodgers’ plan Tuesday, as Sasaki pitched for the first time in Cactus League action against the Cincinnati Reds.

Roki Sasaki is on track to make history in Major League Baseball during his first year with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Roki Sasaki pitched three scoreless innings in his spring debut, striking out five while allowing one walk and a pair of hits against the Reds on Tuesday night at Camelback Ranch. Sasaki followed Yoshinobu Yamamoto,

Four months after I gave a scouting report culled with the help of executives and scouts on what to expect from Roki Sasaki—one of them described his ceiling as “best pitcher in the world”—how did the Los Angeles Dodgers righthander measure up to the advance billing in his first outing?