Multiple basketballs suspected of the departure of Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on Wednesday against Atletico have been sent to league officials to be inspected for foreign substances. AthleticKen Rosenthal.
The balls were signposted because they had visible marks and were sticky. This comes after the referees removed one of the Bauer balls after the first entry of the sport on Wednesday.
Bauer has an openly challenging history with MLB and Commissioner Rob Manfred, such as after the league sent a note in late March to enforce a ban on foreign substances on baseballs. A day later, Righthander posted a video on his YouTube channel, which analyzed his displeasure.
“It’s only illegal for pitchers to have‘ strange substance ’on their person, their body or whatever,” Bauer said in the video. “It is not illegal for a receiver or his chest protector, as you have seen. It’s not illegal for a third baseman to have it in his glove or for a field player to have it in his glove (to my knowledge, maybe there’s a rule change or some language), so I know the rules of baseball. it’s legal for these guys to have things in their glove.
“My question is: if I throw a throw, it’s done away from home and then put to the test and has a weird substance, how do you know it comes from me and not the receiver’s glove or the third base glove? Or on a foul ball, what if he was hit with the handle of a bat where a batter has pine tar or any other substance he wants, which is totally legal as long as he doesn’t climb too high? ”.
Bauer declined AthleticThe request for comment, however, her agent Rachel Luba responded to the article on Twitter, saying Rosenthal was making a “story out of nothing.”
The pitcher later turned to Twitter with his own response, saying it’s “fun to read desperate and misleading clickbait headlines from national gossip bloggers.”
“To translate a fake journalist speaking for all of you,” It’s not clear if “=” I can’t bother looking at this case because it doesn’t fit my narrative. “Wondering where are the articles about the balls of all the other pitchers that are taken out of the game literally in every other game of the season? Also lol to @MLB, who already has ‘sources’ talking to gossip bloggers about a process supposedly confidential up the week, keep killing him! ”
Bauer, who won the NL Cy Young Award last season while performing for the Reds, signed a record deal with the Dodgers this offseason. He will earn $ 40 million this year, $ 45 million next season and then $ 17 million in 2023, the last year of his deal, though he has exclusion options after each season. So far this year, it is 1-0 with an effectiveness of 4.15 and 20 attacks in 13 innings in two outings.