With sports betting looming in Maryland, Major League Baseball said Wednesday it wants to team with the state to guard against the rigging of “particularly risky” bets — such as whether a game’s first pitch will be a ball or a strike.

Marquest Meeks, an MLB senior counsel, said at a public hearing that the league hopes its partnership with Maryland gambling regulators will include not only sharing official statistical information about games with licensed sports betting operators, but also consulting about wagers it believes pose a higher than usual risk of being fixed.

Meeks used the example of a gambler wagering on the first pitch of a game or inning, or the first delivery to a batter.