American justice imposed a bail of $500,000 on Monday for Dominican baseball player Luis Ortiz, pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians, arrested this Sunday for a rigged betting scandal.

Ortiz appeared before a federal court in Boston after an investigation. The investigation dismantled a rigged betting scheme in which the Guardians The player participated alongside his teammate and compatriot Emmanuel Clase. According to the investigation announced by the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Clase and Ortiz provided bettors with advance notice of the types of pitches that would be thrown and intentionally sent balls instead of strikes to ensure winning bets. This corrupt scheme, according to the prosecution, generated at least $400,000 in profits for the bettors. The judge granted Ortiz his freedom but ordered him to surrender his passport, reduce his travel to the Northeast, and have no contact with potential victims or witnesses, according to US media reports.