Baseball: Ohtani gets storybook ending to roller-coaster season

Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani capped a historic, roller-coaster first season as a Los Angeles Dodger with a World Series victory on Wednesday. Ohtani signed a $700-million, 10-year deal last December, the biggest contract in world sports history, and announced his marriage on Instagram at the end of February. Three weeks later, the Dodgers fired his longtime interpreter during their season-opening trip to Seoul as Ohtani’s representatives accused Ippei Mizuhara of stealing money from the player’s bank account to place bets with an illegal bookmaker. The two-time American League MVP denied an…

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