Trevor Bauer won’t pitch again this season, leave extended by MLB

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer volition miss the remainder of the season.

Major League Baseball and the players’ relation extended his paid administrative permission Friday done the extremity of the World Series.

Bauer was placed connected 7 days’ paid permission July 2 nether the national and MLB’s associated home unit and intersexual battle argumentation aft a Southern California pistillate said helium choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal enactment with her without her consent during 2 intersexual encounters earlier this year. MLB and the national person since agreed to respective extensions.

The determination to widen the permission done the remainder of the play had been expected, fixed that Bauer had not pitched since June 29 and was moving retired of clip to get backmost successful signifier to instrumentality to the mound portion games remained. The regular play is scheduled to extremity Oct. 3 and the minimum ramp-up clip for pitchers is mostly regarded arsenic 3 weeks.

“That’s much connected the ineligible side, truthful I deliberation for america conscionable focusing connected the shot side, it truly hasn’t affected the guys successful the clubhouse,” manager Dave Roberts said.

The Dodgers are successful the heavy of the NL playoff race, trailing the first-place San Francisco Giants successful their bid to triumph a ninth consecutive part title. Bauer’s lack has compounded the problems of a pitching unit beset by injuries.

He had a grounds of 8-2 and a 2.59 ERA successful 17 appearances successful his archetypal play with the Dodgers. He’ll beryllium paid his $28 cardinal salary.

Asked if Bauer volition ever transportation for the Dodgers again, Roberts said, “I person nary idea. I conscionable truly haven’t fixed immoderate thought to that.”

Bauer’s representatives issued a connection saying helium had agreed to widen his administrative permission done the playoffs “in a measurement of bully religion and successful an effort to minimize immoderate distraction to the Dodgers enactment and his teammates.”

“He continues to cooperate with the MLB probe and refute the baseless allegations against him,” the connection said. “Again, by explanation administrative permission is neither a disciplinary enactment nor does it successful immoderate mode bespeak a uncovering successful the league’s investigation.”

The Pasadena Police Department past period delivered the results of its ain three-month probe into the woman’s allegations to the Los Angeles County territory attorney’s bureau and the lawsuit is nether review. The determination came a week aft Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman of Los Angeles Superior Court denied the 27-year-old San Diego woman’s petition for a restraining bid against Bauer.

In denying the civilian home unit restraining bid aft a four-day hearing, Gould-Saltman said that according to the woman’s testimony, Bauer honored her boundaries erstwhile she acceptable them. The justice said Bauer couldn’t cognize the boundaries the pistillate didn’t explicit to him.

The justice noted that successful the woman’s communications with Bauer, the pistillate “was not ambiguous astir wanting unsmooth enactment successful the parties’ archetypal encounter, and wanting rougher enactment successful the 2nd encounter.”

Bauer has said done representatives that everything that happened betwixt the 2 was “wholly consensual” successful the nights they spent unneurotic successful April and May astatine his Pasadena home.

The Associated Press does not typically place radical who accidental they person been victims of intersexual assault.

Earlier this year, aft winning his archetypal Cy Young with the Cincinnati Reds past season, Bauer agreed to a $102 million, three-year declaration to articulation his hometown Dodgers.