Cleveland Guards Pitchers Clase, Ortiz indicted on gambling charges

Two two-year-old security guards have been indicted by prosecutors on various charges related to a sports gambling scheme.

In accordance with EspN‘ Jeff Passan, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz Both were accused of tight betting related to their pitches during the MLB season.

Ortiz was arrested in Boston on Sunday, November 9, and will appear in court on Monday, November 10, and Crake is reportedly in custody, according to Federal prosecutors.

“MLB consulted Federal Law at the end of its investigation and has fully cooperated throughout the process,” the league said in a statement to ESPN on Sunday. “We know that we are being arrested, and our investigation is ongoing.”

Prosecutors say that when they gambled they won at least $450,000 in wagers on the couple’s slots between May 2023, and prosecutors said Ortiz joined the scheme in May 2053, and prosecutors said they organized the scheme in May 2025.

“Defendants have breached the Cleveland custodians and Major League Baseball for their honest services,” Joseph Nocella Jr.the US attorney for the Eastern region, said in a statement on Sunday. “They corrupted the online betting platforms where bets were placed. And they betrayed the American way of gaming. Integrity and fair play are part of our DNA, an insult to public trust in an institution so important and dear to all of us.”

Ortiz has denied all charges that he has a lawyer, Chris Georgalolisin the statement to EspN.

Pots could face up to 65 years in prison if convicted.

Clase and Ortiz have been out of the field for disciplinary action since July, after betting firms were under oath for improper betting on Ortiz in June.

The accusations against the two names include balls and intentionally throwing balls instead of strikes in the first hole of the At-Baluts bats, according to the prosecutors (the strikers would not even look at each hole).

The charges came in the face of the NBA Sports Scandal Scandal that saw nearly a dozen people, including the Miami Heat Star Terry Rozier and Portland Trailbzazers Coach Chauncey Billips.

Before Game 2 of the World Series, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred they responded to the NBA’s rebuke, saying MLB was always “really sneaky.”

“We didn’t ask to have legal sports betting,” Manfred, 67, told reporters before the game. “It came and went, and that’s the place we’re working in. Now we don’t have a lot of choice about that, and if it’s going to change — broad change — maybe the only way it’s going to happen is in the federal government.”

He went on to say that he supports business cooperation with gambling companies, as opposed to working with those companies that help police gambling.

“When you’re in that situation where sports betting is happening, the key issue is access to data,” Manfred said. “That means you have to have a relationship with the sports books. Like most relationships, if you want something from them, you need them to give something back.”

He continued: “The most important thing we can do is make sure we have systems in place that give us access to the data, what you need when you find something is changing, make sure you understand exactly what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused what caused it.”

In February, MLB fired the umpire Pat hoberg for violating the league’s gambling rules.

June 2024, Los Angeles Dodger Superstar Shohei Ohtani He was arrested after a gambling scandal, after his former interpreter pleaded guilty to bank fraud, tax fraud and admitted to stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani to place illegal sports bets.

Ohtani denied any knowledge or involvement and was cleared of any wrongdoing after an MLB investigation. He then became his translator after that.