Guardians starter Luis Ortiz's suspicious wild pitches at heart of MLB gambling investigation

MLB announced that Cleveland Guardians started Luis Ortiz’s non -disciplined wage leaves on Thursday hours before the planned to get against Chicago Cubs.

Although he does not explain the nature of the MLB investigation, ESPN reported It was about gambling.

It examines two steps taken by Ortiz during a start.

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In June, the betting integrity firm IC360 transferred two fields to sports books, according to ESPN, and the first was against Seattle Mariners on June 15th.

The company marked the unusual betting action to become a ball or a player in the first field thrown by Ortiz under the second shot. Ortiz sewed a slider in a far away from the strike zone.

Later, on June 27, St. Louis Cardinals against the top of the third shot from Ortiz’den another extraordinary betting action came. Once again, the bets were in the player who hit a ball or hit ball, and Ortiz began to take another step that the adherence could not cope.

Examples like this, even as the best jug, are investigating the league situation.

According to ESPN, bets came from Ohio, New York and New Jersey.

The non-disciplined leave for Ortiz is scheduled to take place in MLB All-Star break, and the games continue on July 18th.

Guardians made a statement on the issue after MLB’s statement.

“Guardans, Major League Baseball was informed that Luis Ortiz was allowed to be permitted with the players Association for an ongoing league investigation.

“Guardians are not allowed to comment more at the moment and will respect the league’s secret investigation process.”

Ortiz, this season for the Guardians 16 times on the field and 4.36 ERA and 96 strikes recorded.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

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