Two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians were charged this week with sharing inside information about their own play with sports betters, information that enabled them and others to profit off the very pitches they threw.

As Stephanie Syre reports, it's just the latest in a series of gambling scandals surrounding the world of professional sports.

Jeff, charges against the two baseball players come just weeks after similar indictments

rocked the NBA, implicating current and former players.

Taken together, the scandals raise questions about how the legal sports betting industry

is potentially impacting the integrity of the sports we love.

To help break it down, we're joined now by Jonathan Cohen.

He is the author of Losing Big America's reckless bet on sports gambling.

Jonathan Cohen, thank you so much for joining us.

Let's start with this most recent indictment.

These two MLB players allegedly

rigged their pitches. What exactly are they accused of doing? Right. So the new version of

sports betting unleashed these sort of new kinds of bets that you couldn't do before. And what Ortiz

and Class A are specifically alleged to have done is to tipped off gamblers and

associates that they were going to throw specific pitches to be balls outside of the strike

zone.

And so you say, okay, if you can bet a lot of money and you can do this, that the first pitch

of the third inning will be a ball.

And they would tell their associates, their associates would gamble, and their associates would win money because they had inside information as to how the pitchers

would perform. And that is different from other types of betting, especially betting on sports.

So fans of America's greatest past time are concerned about the integrity of the game at this point.

The MLB has responded by announcing some limitations on these bets on pitches.

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