{"id":378374,"date":"2025-11-14T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378374\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:16:12","slug":"illegal-bets-in-the-dominican-republic-come-under-scrutiny-after-mlb-pitchers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378374\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal bets in the Dominican Republic come under scrutiny after MLB pitchers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the country\u2019s most famous public bets involving the local league took place earlier this year. Hall of Famer and former Red Sox star <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/david-ortiz-red-sox-yankees-024b07284d63692b6e7d9d666cdac1a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Ortiz<\/a> offered fans a 1 million peso ($16,000) wager on social media in favor of the team that went on to win the championship \u2014 he ended up with 15 million pesos ($240,000) on the line. That included a 2 million peso ($32,000) bet with Dominican urban singer Bulin 47, but Ortiz forgave him after winning: \u201cYou\u2019re good to those who are poor,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the country\u2019s most famous public bets involving the local league took place earlier this year. Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":378375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-378374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115548244296147629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}