Ex-Cleveland Guardians catcher Bo Naylor testifies he didn't know gamblers bet on individual pitches
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Catcher Bo Naylor, a former teammate of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, testified Thursday at their New York sports betting trial that he didn't know gamblers could place bets on individual pitches until the criminal case arose.Naylor, called as a defense witness out of turn because he is heading to his wedding, made the revelation under cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney James Simmons, who asked if he knew such bets occurred at the time of 2025 baseball game recordings shown to a Brooklyn jury.“I didn't know that before,” he said. “I didn't know that until the situation.”“You didn't know people bet tens of thousands of dollars on pitches?” the prosecutor asked him, though Naylor was stopped from answering when an objection by defense lawyers was sustained.The testimony reflected how quickly sports-betting possibilities have blossomed in recent years. Legal sports betting has spread to 39 states in a steady expansion since the U.S. Supreme Court cl