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Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 US and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.
Prominent U.S. sportsbooks are establishing a nationwide $200 betting limit on baseball wagers centered on individual pitches and prohibiting such bets from being included in parlays in an attempt to decrease the incentive for manipulation, Major League Baseball announced Monday.
BOSTON — Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz appeared in federal court Monday on charges accusing him and teammate Emmanuel Clase of taking bribes to help associates in their native Dominican Republic win prop bets placed on pitches they threw.
Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been charged with taking bribes from sports bettors to intentionally throw certain types of pitches, including tossing balls instead of strikes to ensure successful bets.
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Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were charged with fraud, conspiracy and bribery stemming from an alleged scheme to rig individual pitches that led to bettors winning hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to an indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors Sunday.
TORONTO — Commissioner Rob Manfred said Major League Baseball's «No. 1 priority is to protect the integrity of the game» and that the league has been «really vigilant» amid increasing questions about professional sports' ability to police the fallout from the widespread legalization of sports gambling.
TORONTO — Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark on Friday said «there is a lot of work to be done» by MLB in the wake of another sports gambling scandal hitting the NBA this week.