Inside the secret parking lot meeting where Shohei Ohtani’s name first surfaced in gambling scandal
MLB Inside the secret parking lot meeting where Shohei Ohtani’s name first surfaced in gambling scandal By Ryan Anderson Published July 26, 2026, 5:02 p.m. Add The California Post on Google ESPN’s upcoming “30 for 30” podcast revisits the moment investigators and reporters first discovered an apparent financial connection between Shohei Ohtani and the illegal bookmaking operation that later helped expose Ippei Mizuhara’s massive theft. In a preview for “The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani,” ESPN investigative reporter Tisha Thompson recounts meeting a nervous source in a parking lot in the middle of the night after learning that a paper trail connected Ohtani’s bank account to bookmaker Mathew Bowyer.
- ▪MLB Inside the secret parking lot meeting where Shohei Ohtani’s name first surfaced in gambling scandal By Ryan Anderson Published July 26, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google ESPN’s upcoming “30 for 30” podcast revisits the moment investigators and reporters first discovered an apparent financial connection between Shohei Ohtani and the illegal bookmaking operation that later he
- ▪In a preview for “The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani,” ESPN investigative reporter Tisha Thompson recounts meeting a nervous source in a parking lot in the middle of the night after learning that a paper trail connected Ohtani’s bank account to
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