LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners will launch the 2019 Major League Baseball season with a two-game series in Tokyo, league chiefs confirmed on Wednesday. The two-game series on March 20-21 at the Tokyo Dome starts a season which also includes international stops in London and Mexico as baseball aims to broaden its appeal. The Athletics-Mariners series marks the eighth time the MLB has staged its season-opener overseas, and […]