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Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer being investigated by MLB for suspicious
baseballs
MLB調查躲人投手Trevor Bauer的可疑用球
Major League Baseball officials are investigating Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher
Trevor Bauer for potentially applying a foreign substance to balls in his
start Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics, according to a report by Ken
Rosenthal of The Athletic. While it is unclear what type of substance is
suspected, or even if Bauer was the one who applied it, the umpires
officiating the interleague match collected several baseballs used by the
starting pitcher after noticing that they had a “visible, sticky marking.”
根據The Athletic記者Ken Rosenthal的報導MLB人員因為懷疑躲人投手Trevor Bauer星期
三對運動家首役在球上塗了可疑物質開始調查。目前對於是何種物質以及是不是Bauer塗上
去的還不清楚，但是裁判人員注意到這位投手使用的球上面有"可見的黏性標記"後，已經
收集了幾顆球。
The investigation of Bauer comes less than two weeks after the Commissioner’
s office sent a memo to all 30 clubs, outlining new policies meant to deter
any tampering of the balls used. With the league increasingly focused on
reducing time of play, as well as leveling the playing field for hitters, the
focus on banning illegal substances is meant to reduce the amount of “spin”
a pitcher is able to generate on balls thrown, which subsequently increases
the difficulty of hitting it. Since 2007, the number of strikeouts each year
has increased–with 32,189 K’s recorded leaguewide in ’07 to 42,823 in 2019
–a timeframe that coincides with the attention paid to spin-rate.
在聯盟主席辦公室剛送出備忘錄給所有球隊，列出一些新的政策要避免違規球的使用不到
兩個星期，這件調查Bauer的事件就發生了。聯盟目前聚焦在想要減少比賽的長度，以及讓
打者的打擊有公平性，聯盟焦點放在禁止使用非法物質就是要降低投手所投出的球的轉
速，高的轉速會讓打擊的困難度增加。從2007年起，聯盟每年的三振次數就不停地攀升