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CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Guardians<\/a> pitcher Luis Ortiz will remain on non-disciplinary leave through Aug. 31 while he is the subject of a Major League Baseball gambling investigation.<\/p>\n Ortiz’s paid leave began on July 3 and was supposed to end on Friday before MLB<\/a> and the MLB Players Association agreed to extend it.<\/p>\n The team can continue to have contact with Ortiz, but he can\u2019t enter any of the Guardians\u2019 facilities.<\/p>\n The Guardians said in a statement they have been informed of the extension and will continue to fully cooperate with the investigation.<\/p>\n The investigation is related to in-game prop bets on two pitches thrown by Ortiz that received higher activity than usual during his starts at Seattle on June 15 and his recent outing against St. Louis on June 27. The gambling activity on the pitches was flagged by a betting-integrity firm and forwarded to MLB.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old Ortiz is in his first season with Cleveland after he was acquired in a trade with Pittsburgh last December. The right-hander is 4-9 with a 4.36 ERA and 96 strikeouts in 16 starts this season.<\/p>\n In four big-league seasons, Ortiz is 16-22 with a 4.05 ERA and one save.<\/p>\n Cleveland hosts the Athletics<\/a> in a weekend series. The Guardians have won six of seven after a 10-game losing streak.<\/p>\n The investigation into Ortiz comes a little more than a year after MLB suspended five players for gambling, including a lifetime ban for San Diego Padres<\/a> infielder Tucupita Marcano<\/a>. MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 with a legal sportsbook in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n Athletics pitcher Michael Kelly<\/a> and three minor leaguers \u2014 San Diego pitcher Jay Groome<\/a>, Arizona pitcher Andrew Saalfrank and Philadelphia infielder Jose Rodriguez<\/a> \u2014 received one-year suspensions.<\/p>\n Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball in February for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games, and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n \n recommended\n <\/p>\n Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n Item 1 of 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz will remain on non-disciplinary leave through Aug. 31 while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}