This rule alteration allows a team to leave a departed pitcher in as the DH for the remainder of the game. So when Ohtani leaves the mound, he essentially morphs from a pitcher in the batting order to just a designated hitter in the batting order. The Dodgers won't have to let their relief pitchers hit. Ohtani will hit for them.

On Thursday, New York sports radio personality Craig Carton pointed out the oddity between how MLB handled Ohtani’s betting scandal, which landed his translator, Ippei Mizuhara, in prison for 57 months, and this FBI ring involving some in the NBA?

Dodgers superstar defies description with historic three-homer, 10-strikeout playoff performance that has observers questioning if we'll ever see anyone like him again.

A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced to just over a year in prison Friday. Mathew Bowyer, now 50, had pleaded guilty a year ago to running an illegal ...

Last year, LA Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara found themselves in the middle of an investigation into Orange County resident Mathew Bowyer.

TOKYO -- Japanese pitcher Shohei Otani says he could move to Major League Baseball after the 2017 season. The 22-year-old right-hander, who has also shown potential as a hitter, signed a $2.37 million contract for next season with the Nippon Ham Fighters ...