Shohei Ohtani Denies Covering Ex-Interpreter Mizuhara’s Sports Betting Debts

Topline Los Angeles Dodger star Shohei Ohtani told reporters Monday his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, had stolen money from his bank account and “told lies,” distancing himself from Mizuhara and denying that he knowingly covered Mizuhara’s gambling losses in his first public comments on the matter—as the interpreter faces investigations after allegedly using Ohtani’s money…