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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

Trevor Bauer with Cleveland, May 19, 2019, about 10 weeks before the incident. Not the throw.

Personalities & Off-field2019

Bauer Throws It Over the Fence

When Terry Francona came to take him out in the fifth, Trevor Bauer turned and threw the baseball over the center-field fence at Kauffman Stadium. He apologized after the game. Cleveland traded him within the week.

Cleveland Indians · Kansas City Royals

No. 1994.07.15

1994

July 15

Rules & Quirks1994

Albert Belle's Corked Bat

Umpires confiscated Albert Belle's bat in Chicago. A teammate crawled through the ceiling to swap it, and the replacement had the wrong name on it.

Cleveland Indians · Chicago White Sox

Steve Lyons, by then a Dodgers broadcaster, on April 20, 2013. This is not the July 16, 1990 game in which he dropped his pants.

Personalities & Off-field1990

Steve Lyons Drops His Pants

Steve Lyons beat out a bunt, slid into first, and unbuckled his pants on live television to shake the dirt out.

Chicago White Sox · Detroit Tigers

No. 1981.05.27

1981

May 27

Rules & Quirks1981

Randle Blows It Foul

Lenny Randle dropped to the Kingdome turf and blew a slow roller across the foul line. The umpire called it foul, then changed the call after the Royals protested.

Seattle Mariners · Kansas City Royals

Eddie Gaedel, 3-foot-7, in his batting stance for the St. Louis Browns as Detroit catcher Bob Swift kneels, August 19, 1951.

Promotions & Ballpark Events1951

Eddie Gaedel Walks

Bill Veeck sent 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel to the plate in a child's uniform. Gaedel walked on four pitches. The league voided the contract the next day.

St. Louis Browns · Detroit Tigers