Major League Baseball announced late Friday afternoon that it has launched an official investigation into the Shohei Ohtani interpreter sports betting scandal.'
A press release from MLB went out a tick before 6 p.m. ET, and the two-sentence, single-paragraph release misspelled the interpreter's name.
“Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhari {sic} from the news media,” the release read, misspelling 'Mizuhara'. “Earlier today, our Department of Investigations (DOI) began their formal process investigating the matter.”
The story broke on Wednesday, when the Los Angeles Times reported that representatives for Ohtani accused Mizuhara of stealing millions of dollars from the Dodgers star, in order to fund an illegal sports gambling addiction.