“For me, personally, this marks a break from this and I’d like to focus on baseball,” Ohtani tells a reporter before Friday’s game against the Padres.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, pictured, and the team said they had moved one more step beyond the betting scandal involving former longtime translator Ippei Mizuhara, who surrendered to federal authorities on Friday on charges of stealing $16 million from Ohtani.
Mizuhara was charged Thursday with stealing the money from Ohtani’s bank account in order to cover gambling debts placed with an illegal Orange County sports betting operation. Ohtani’s brief statement to the Times was his first public comment since Mizuhara was charged. Roberts said the scandal, which broke while the Dodgers played the Padres in a season-opening set of games in Seoul, South Korea, last month, had not been a distraction but he also said the Dodgers had gained greater access to Ohtani the man and the player without Mizuhara serving as translator.
Ohtani was hitting .333 with three home runs and eight RBIs going into Friday’s game, and his throwing routine as he returns from a second Tommy John surgery was progressing on schedule, by all accounts. The Dodgers were 10-5, first in the NL West, before hosting the second-place Padres .Dodgers come up short, end road trip with 1-run loss to Twins
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