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Ohtani’s Interpreter Fired for Sports Betting - What We Know

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This isn’t the kind of attention that Major League Baseball was looking for to open the season. Almost as soon as the league got to celebrate Shohei Ohtani leading his new Dodgers teammates to victory in South Korea, news broke that Ohtani’s name was being dragged into a sports betting scandal involving his longtime friend and interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara. ESPN investigative journalist Tisha Thompson takes us through her reporting to tell us what happened, and how baseball's biggest unicorn finds himself embroiled in a massive controversy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We begin with breaking news here at 4.

0:04.4

L.A. Dodgers superstar Shoaho Tani

0:07.2

may have been swindled out of millions of dollars

0:09.6

by his interpreter.

0:11.0

Representatives of Shoaho. interpreter. theft of Otani's funds to place bets with an allegedly illegal bookmaker

0:25.5

who's a target of a federal investigation. He pays Ben with Shohay since he got

0:30.8

here and you know I mean it feels like they're never apart.

0:35.3

We'll eat breakfast every day at the hotel on the road if not at home.

0:40.4

Then it's pretty much it.

0:43.0

We'll get on the bus.

0:45.0

These two seem to have transcended friendship

0:48.0

into a type of brotherhood.

0:51.0

With the angels you did not see Otani without seeing Mizorra.

0:55.0

This is amazing.

0:56.2

It's safe to say that this is not the start to the season that Major League Baseball was looking for.

1:05.0

Because on Wednesday morning, the game's biggest star,

1:08.0

Shohayotani, led his brand new Dodgers team to a win over the San Diego Padres in South Korea.

1:14.5

Off the end of the bat into left center field that gets the job done.

1:19.5

Lux Bolting home and Shohayo Tani has followed Mukie Bess with an RBI single of his own.

1:26.8

Before having his name tied to a massive illegal sports betting operation on Wednesday afternoon. A baseball bombshell involving one of the game's biggest stars, the Dodgers Shohay O'Tani, his longtime friend and interpreter fired by the Dodgers after allegations of massive theft to pay gambling debts.

1:45.0

It's a big and complex story, one that is still unfolding.

1:49.2

So today, ESPN investigative journalist Tisha Thompson takes us through her reporting to tell us what happened and how baseball's biggest unicorn finds himself embroiled in a giant controversy.

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