Baseball is a beautiful game, but that beauty relies entirely on the trust between fans and players. Federal prosecutors just shattered that fragile trust this past Sunday when they unsealed an indictment against two active Cleveland Guardians pitchers. According to a report from ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the indictment was unsealed against Star closer Emmanuel Clase and his teammate, Luis Ortiz , charging both men with fraud, conspiracy, and bribery. Prosecutors say the duo took cash to intentionally rig pitches and helped gamblers win hundreds of thousands of dollars on prop bets.

And while the FBI arrested Ortiz in Boston, the alleged ringleader Emmanuel Clase is currently not in U.S. custody. Clase is reportedly safe in his hometown in the Dominican Republic. Now, a truly bizarre

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