TOKYO: Japan’s pro baseball organization on Wednesday said it had suspended three pitchers indefinitely and fined the country’s biggest team, the Yomiuri Giants, $800,000 over a betting scandal.
Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) suspended Giants’ pitchers Satoshi Fukuda, Shoki Kasahara and Ryuya Matsumoto for betting on games, which is illegal. They are reportedly the first such sanctions in 56 years.
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