CLEVELAND — Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted on charges related to the sports betting investigation that has sidelined the pair since the summer.

According to journalist Pablo Torre, who first broke the news , Clase and Ortiz were charged by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn of conspiring with bettors to rig pitches in games in which they appeared. According to an image of the indictment in the Eastern District of New York, prosecutors allege the pitchers agreed in advance with co-conspirators to throw specific types and speeds of pitches and received bribes and kickback payments in exchange for the inside betting information.

"Through this scheme, the defendants defrauded betting platforms, deprived Major League Baseball and the Cleveland G

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