Baseball: Ohtani denies gambling involvement, slams fired interpreter

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani said Monday he is not involved in gambling and never made payments to an alleged illegal bookmaker in California.Ohtani spoke to the media for the first time since illegal gambling and theft allegations against his longtime interpreter Ippei Mizuhara emerged last week. Without taking questions from reporters at Dodger Stadium, Ohtani read a prepared statement in Japanese quickly for over 10 minutes.Mizuhara was fired by the Dodgers during the team's season-opening trip to Seoul after representatives of Ohtani accused the 39-year-old interpreter of enga…READ FULL ARTICLE