Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase tipped bettors to his rigged pitches in text messages with coded language like “rooster” and “chicken,” prosecutors said in a revised indictment.
Newly retrieved messages show Clase used the coded language and even gave gamblers advance information about what pitches he would throw in the middle of games, prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, said in documents unsealed Friday. In the revised indictment, prosecutors added at least five games where they said Clase tipped gamblers to how he would pitch.
Clase and Luis Ortiz, who also pitches for the Guardians, were charged in November in a ...