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Emmanuel Clase pitching for the Guardians at Progressive Field, May 14, 2023. Not related to the indictment.

Personalities & Off-field2025

Clase and Ortiz Are Indicted

Federal prosecutors charged Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz with rigging pitches for bettors. The indictment alleges the bettors won at least $450,000. Both pitchers had already been placed on leave. The case was not finished when the charges were made public.

Cleveland Guardians

Tucupita Marcano diving for a catch with the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians, September 2021. Not related to the betting ban.

Personalities & Off-field2024

Marcano's Lifetime Ban

Major League Baseball banned Tucupita Marcano for life for betting on baseball, including 25 bets on Pirates games while he was on Pittsburgh's roster. It was the first lifetime gambling ban since Pete Rose in 1989.

San Diego Padres · Pittsburgh Pirates

Umpire Pat Hoberg makes an out call at home plate, August 26, 2014. Not related to the firing.

Umpire Controversies2024

Hoberg Is Fired

Pat Hoberg, one of the league's most accurate ball-strike umpires, was fired for sharing legal betting accounts with a poker player who bet on baseball, and for deleting messages. Major League Baseball found no evidence he had bet on the game himself.

Ippei Mizuhara (with Shohei Ohtani) at Angel Stadium, June 8, 2019. Taken years before the scandal, not the moment.

Personalities & Off-field2024

Mizuhara's Debts

During the Seoul Series, the Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's interpreter. Mizuhara had stolen about $17 million from Ohtani's account to pay illegal gambling debts. He pleaded guilty. Prosecutors cleared Ohtani.

Los Angeles Dodgers