Giants file Takagi gambling charges to NPB commissioner

Giants file Takagi gambling charges to NPB commissioner

Hitoshi Yamagishi (L), director of Japan's Central League baseball club Yomiuri Giants, hands over documents filing charges against the club's pitcher Kyosuke Takagi to Katsuhiko Kumagai, head of the Nippon Professional Baseball Commission, in Tokyo on March 10, 2016. According to Yomiuri, Takagi bet around 100,000 to 150,000 yen on each of eight or nine NPB games in April and May 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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