The Eastern District of New York is becoming the country’s unofficial epicenter of gambling prosecutions.

The same prosecutors who filed a sweeping indictment last month involving multiple NBA figures has now indicted a pair of pitchers from the Cleveland Guardians.

Via Jeff Passan of ESPN.com, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz face multiple charges (including fraud, conspiracy and bribery) arising from an effort to rig bets on pitches thrown in games.

Ortiz was arrested in Boston. Clase has not yet been detained. They allegedly face up to 65 yards in prison, each.

The 23-page document accuses the pitchers of deliberately throwing balls , so that gamblers could place bets on balls vs. strikes. It allegedly began as early as May 2023, starting with Chase. Later, it included Ortiz.

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