Referees check the hat and glove of Trevor Bauer # 27 of the Los Angeles Dodgers for foreign matter after the first inning against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on June 28, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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Los Angeles Dodgers’ superstar pitcher Trevor Bauer was given a week’s administrative vacation from Major League Baseball on Friday amid a criminal investigation into a woman’s allegations that Bauer sexually assaulted her in a brutal incident.
Bauer’s forced vacation was announced the same day President Joe Biden hosted the Dodgers at the White House for their World Series win last fall.
Bauer, who won the 2020 National League Cy Young Award while playing for the Cincinnati Reds, agreed to a three-year deal with the Dodgers in February that could gross him a total of $ 102 million, making him one of the highest-paid baseball players .
The 30-year-old, who was due to face the Nationals in Washington next Sunday, has not been charged. But the California police are investigating him.
Bauer is also the subject of a restraining order against domestic violence filed Tuesday by his 27-year-old accuser.
Major League Baseball said in a statement that an investigation into the woman’s allegations against Bauer is “ongoing.”
“Although no decision has yet been made in the case, we have decided to put Mr. Bauer on a seven-day administrative vacation with immediate effect,” said the MLB’s announcement.
“MLB continues to gather information in our ongoing investigation in parallel with the active criminal investigation of the Pasadena Police Department. We will provide further comments in due course.”
The announcement came a day after Sports Illustrated posted an article online entitled “Trevor Bauer Not Allowed To Start Sunday”.
The article berated the Dodgers and MLB for “cowardice” for failing to give Bauer a leave of absence despite the “disgusting” allegations against him.
Bauer’s prosecutor said in her application for an injunction that he choked her to unconsciousness in two sexual encounters and hit her repeatedly in the face and genitals in one of the encounters, injuring her so badly that she was hospitalized.
She also claims he behaved sexually that she did not consent to one of the encounters.
Bauer’s agent Jon Fetterolf said Bauer had “a brief and completely consensual sexual relationship” with the woman she initiated.
“Your basis for filing a protection order is non-existent, fraudulent, and deliberately omitting important facts, information and your own relevant communications,” Fetterolf told NBC News.
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