-clase
Americancombining form
Etymology
Origin of -clase
< French < Greek klásis; -clasis
Example Sentences
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Or pitch in baseball: The 2025 federal indictment of Guardians all-star Emmanuel Clase alleges that he was tailoring pitches to bets.
Weeks later, the same U.S. attorney’s office charged Cleveland Guardians pitchers Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase with fraud.
In November, Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted on federal charges that they “rigged pitches” — that is, they tipped bettors about whether they would throw a pitch outside the strike zone in specified situations and how hard they would throw it.
From Los Angeles Times
Prosecutors say bettors won hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves and paid Clase and Ortiz thousands of dollars for their help.
From Los Angeles Times
Prosecutors told the court last month that Clase, a three-time All-Star, likely would face 87 to 108 months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines — that is, up to nine years — if convicted on each of the four counts in his indictment.
From Los Angeles Times
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