Major League Baseball pitcher Luis Ortiz appeared in a federal courtroom in Boston on Monday, charged with a scheme to rig bets on his pitches.

Ortiz, a pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians, was given a $50,000 secured bond and ordered to surrender his passport. He was arrested at Logan Airport in Boston over the weekend and will have another appearance in a federal courtroom in New York where he was indicted by a grand jury.

Federal prosecutors argue that Ortiz and another Cleveland pitcher, Emmanuel Clase, told co-conspirators how they would pitch in games so the bettors could place wagers on those pitches. That alone would be a violation of Major League Baseball policy, but investigators say text messages show that Clase and Ortiz were pre-planning with co-conspirators in the Domin

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