Shohei Ohtani and his translator Ippei Mizuhara.
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Wednesday was supposed to be a great day for Major League Baseball. Shohei Ohtani, the 29-year-old megastar, made his debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers during a game against the Padres played in South Korea. Instead, Wednesday was memorable for a very different reason. ESPN and the Los Angeles Times reported that Ohtani’s translator, Ippei Mizuhara, was fired after racking up millions in gambling debts to a bookmaker who is under federal investigation in California — a state where sports…
