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Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer being investigated by MLB for suspicious
baseballs
MLB调查躲人投手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.”
根据The Athletic记者Ken Rosenthal的报导MLB人员因为怀疑躲人投手Trevor Bauer星期
三对运动家首役在球上涂了可疑物质开始调查。目前对于是何种物质以及是不是Bauer涂上
去的还不清楚，但是裁判人员注意到这位投手使用的球上面有"可见的黏性标记"后，已经
收集了几颗球。
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.
在联盟主席办公室刚送出备忘录给所有球队，列出一些新的政策要避免违规球的使用不到
两个星期，这件调查Bauer的事件就发生了。联盟目前聚焦在想要减少比赛的长度，以及让
打者的打击有公平性，联盟焦点放在禁止使用非法物质就是要降低投手所投出的球的转
速，高的转速会让打击的困难度增加。从2007年起，联盟每年的三振次数就不停地攀升