On Wednesday, Shohei Ohtani sliced a 98 mile-per-hour fastball off the top of his bat, capping a four-run rally by the Los Angeles Dodgers with an RBI single to left-centerfield.

Appearing in Dodger Blue for the first time in an MLB regular-season game, the Japanese star went 2-for-5 in Wednesday’s season-opener against the Padres in Seoul. By early Thursday morning, South Korean time, a bombshell report on Ohtani’s interpreter’s alleged ties to a Las Vegas bookmaker broke the Internet.

Dodgers players awoke Thursday to news that the team fired Ohtani’s interpreter Ippei Mizuhara amid irregularities surrounding a series of wire transfers to an associate of Matt Bowyer, the bookmaker in question.