On Sunday, August 3, 2025 (8/3/25) at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Detroit Tigers will play the Philadelphia Phillies.
How to watch: Fans who have a DirecTV trial or a FuboTV subscription can watch the game for free.
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What you should know is as follows:
What: Regular season of the MLB
Who: Phillies vs. Tigers
When: August 3, 2025 (August 3, 25)
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Where: Bank Park for Citizens
TV:ESPN
Live streaming: FuboTV, DirecTV (free trial)
This is an Associated Press MLB story:
Professional sports leagues have long been concerned about betting scandals, but a May 2018 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has resulted in a surge of gambling-related incidents involving athletes and officials. The decision allowed internet sportsbooks to establish a significant presence in the sports ecosystem by overturning a federal law that prohibited sports betting in the majority of states.
Here are some examples of pro sports betting scandals:
The Black Sox Scandal began in 1920 when a Chicago grand jury indicted eight Chicago White Sox players on suspicion of rigging the 1919 World Series.The eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, were suspended right away by White Sox owner Charles Comiskey. A year later, newly appointed baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis permanently banned them. The eight are still barred from baseball even though a jury found them not guilty of all charges.
The NHL Board of Governors warned that any more gambling would result in a player’s lifelong suspension after Hockey Hall of Famer Babe Pratt was suspended for gambling in 1946 and then reinstated a few weeks later.
Don Gallinger and Billy Taylor were banned from the NHL for life in 1948 for their involvement in hockey wagering.
At least 86 games between 1947 and 1951 were allegedly rigged by 35 current and past players in 1951. Four players from the Adolph Rupp-coached Kentucky Wildcats were among those charged for accepting bribes from gamblers prior to an NIT matchup with Loyola in the 1948–49 season. Following an NCAA inquiry that turned up multiple infractions, Kentucky’s 1952–53 season was canceled.
Due to their involvement in the Totonero match-fixing incident in 1980, two Italian soccer teams were demoted and five others faced penalties. The most notable punishment for Paolo Rossi’s involvement while playing for Perugia was a two-year ban.
Rick Kuhn, a former basketball player at Boston College, and four other people, including New York gangster Jimmy Burke, were found guilty in 1981 of plotting to rig games during the 1978–79 season.
In response to accusations of point-shaving and other offenses, Tulane halted its basketball program in 1985. Basketball was played at the school again for the 1989–1990 campaign.
After an MLB investigation by attorney John Dowd revealed that Rose had wagered heavily on the Cincinnati Reds to win between 1985 and 1987 while managing and playing for the organization, Rose consented to a lifetime suspension in 1989. The 82-year-old baseball great with 4,256 hits is still not eligible to be inducted into Cooperstown and has had multiple reinstatement requests turned down.
Thirteen Boston College football players, including two who wagered against the team during a 45–17 loss to Syracuse, were suspended for gambling in 1996. Coach Dan Henning resigned after alerting school authorities to claims that players were betting with bookies. There was no sign of point-shaving.
Rick Tocchet, the current coach of the Vancouver Canucks, was put on two years of probation in 2007 after entering a guilty plea to conspiracy and gambling promotion while working as the Coyotes’ assistant coach. The NHL brought him back the following year. Additionally, a number of players, Wayne Gretzky’s wife Janet Jones, and Gretzky’s former agent and then Coyotes general manager Michael Barnett were initially linked in a gambling scam known as Operation Slapshot, which involved a New Jersey-based ring.
When NBA referee Tim Donaghy accepted thousands of dollars from a gambler in exchange for insider information on games, including ones he worked, he entered a guilty plea to wire fraud and distributing betting information in 2008. A federal judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
On the eve of the Rugby World Cup in 2019, Rob Howley, the former captain of the Wales men’s rugby team, was sent home to serve as an assistant coach. Howley had placed 363 wagers, one of which was on Wales’ victory over Ireland in the 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam final. He received an 18-month rugby suspension.
After giving pals exclusive information about his possible move and then placing bets on the result, England defender Kieran Trippier was banned for ten weeks in 2021.
The NFL has suspended at least fifteen players for gambling-related offenses. The list begins in 1963, when two future Hall of Famers, Detroit defensive tackle Alex Karras and Green Bay halfback Paul Hornung, were suspended for the season for placing wagers on league games. Calvin Ridley, a receiver with the Atlanta Falcons at the time, was suspended by the NFL for the full 2022 season for wagering on NFL games while he was away from the team dealing with mental health issues the year before.
The lower house of Congress in Brazil launched an investigation into a soccer match-fixing incident in May 2023. This is the third inquiry into allegations of misconduct by soccer players who reportedly handed away penalties and ensured bookings in return for bribes.
According to a 2023 book by famous gambler Billy Walters, six-time major event winner Phil Mickelson allegedly wagered over $1 billion in the previous three decades and sought to risk $400,000 on the 2012 Ryder Cup while playing for Team USA. In a long social media post a month later, Mickelson declared that he had given up gambling, saying that admitting his gambling tendencies went beyond moderation to addiction. Mickelson denies placing any wagers on the Ryder Cup at all.
In 2023, football players Nicol Fagioli of Juventus, Sandro Tonali of Newcastle, and Ivan Toney of Brentford were all banned for gambling. The Italian soccer federation banned Fagioli for seven months.Last year, Tonali, an Italian athlete, received a 10-month ban for wagering on the clubs he played for.
— Shane Pinto, a forward with the Ottawa Senators, was suspended by the NHL for 41 games in October 2023 for sports gambling. The NHL would merely state that there was no proof of Pinto placing hockey wagers. When Pinto returned before the Senators in January, he refused to divulge any information.
Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter and close friend of recently acquired two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani, was sacked by the Los Angeles Dodgers in March 2024 when it was revealed that he had connections to an underground bookmaker. After stealing around $17 million from Ohtani’s bank account, Mizuhara entered a guilty plea to bank and tax fraud in federal court three months later. He used the funds to pay for his personal medical expenses, $325,000 worth of baseball cards, and his expanding gambling wagers and debts with an illicit bookmaker. Mizuhara capitalized on the language barrier to keep Ohtani s financial advisers from understanding their client, and at times, Mizuhara even impersonated the player to the bank to prolong the fraud.
In April 2024,Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porterwas banned for life from the NBA after a league probe found he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games, even betting on the Raptors to lose. Commissioner Adam Silver described Porter’s conduct as apparent when he made the announcement. The investigation started once the league learned from licensed sports betting operators and an organization that monitors legal betting markets about unusual gambling patterns surrounding Porter s performance in a game on March 20 against Sacramento. According to the league, Porter provided a bettor with information regarding his personal health state before the game, and another person who is known to be an NBA betting wagered $80,000 that Porter would fail to meet the parlay numbers that were set for him through an online sports book. $1.1 million would have been gained on the wager.
In June 2024,San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcanowas banned for life by MLB for betting on baseball. MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 with a legal sportsbook in 2022 and 2023. The 24-year-old Venezuelan with 149 games of major league experience became the first active player in a century banned for life because of gambling. Pitcher Michael Kelly of the Oakland Athletics was also given a one-year suspension for baseball betting while playing in the minor leagues, and three minor league players—infielder Jos Rodriguez of Philadelphia, pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego, and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona—were also given one-year bans for betting on major league games. Each of those four players wagered under $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodr guez played previously in the majors.
In February 2025, umpirePat Hoberg was fired by MLBfor sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league s investigation. While MLB said the probe did not uncover evidence Hoberg personally bet on baseball or manipulated games, MLB senior vice president of on-field operations Michael Hill recommended on May 24, 2024 that Hoberg be fired. Commissioner Rob Manfred he upheld Hill s decision. Among the highest-rated umpires at judging the strike zone, Hoberg could apply for reinstatement no earlier than 2026 spring training. MLB said the friend made 141 baseball bets between April 2, 2021, and Nov. 1, 2023, totaling almost $214,000 with an overall win of nearly $35,000. That included eight bets involving games where Hoberg was working.
In June/July 2025, MLB placed Cleveland Guardians pitchersLuis OrtizandEmmanuel Claseon paid leave as part of a sports betting investigation. The Ortiz probe is related to in-game prop bets on two pitches thrown by the right-hander that received higher activity than usual during his starts at Seattle on June 15 and against St. Louis on June 27. The gambling activity on the pitches was flagged by a betting-integrity firm and forwarded to MLB. Clase was placed on leave more than three weeks after Ortiz. It s not clear if Clase was sidelined as part of the same investigation, and he hasn t been formally accused of wrongdoing.
