Scandal? What scandal?
Shohei Ohtani might as well have been talking about a television show he watched the night before or his commute to Dodger Stadium in the morning.
He was calm, even welcoming, when I approached him on Thursday before the Dodgers’ 7-1 home-opening victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Ohtani nodded when I mentioned the unanswered questions that remained after he publicly accused former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara three days earlier of stealing money from him to settle gambling debts.
“I said all I could say at this point,” Ohtani said in Japanese.