For the first home game of the season, Julian Vettorazzi showed up at Dodger Stadium as he has for most of his 29 years, this time with 9-year-old son Xander in tow.
They were excited to see Shohei Ohtani’s first-at bat at home. But then there was the other issue that Vettorazzi was trying to put out of his mind: a gambling scandal surrounding the world’s biggest ball player.
Major League Baseball says it’ll launch an investigation after the two-way star accused his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara of stealing $4.5 million from him to pay off gambling debts.