A day after two Cleveland Guardians pitchers were indicted on charges they took bribes from sports bettors to throw certain types of pitches to ensure winning wagers, MLB announced an agreement Monday with major U.S. sportsbooks to establish a national betting limit on prop bets on individual pitches.

All MLB authorized sportsbook partners will cap wagers on pitch markets at $200 and exclude those bets from parlays.

Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz took several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 on in-game prop bets on whether certain pitches would be balls or strikes — including some that landed in the dirt — as well as the over/under on the speed of some pitches, according to an indictment unsealed

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