Major League Baseball and the players’ union agreed to put off any decisions on punishment of Bauer, who is under investigation for sexual assault, until after the World Series.
Trevor Bauer, the star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who remains under investigation for sexual assault, will not pitch in the majors again this season. Major League Baseball and the players’ union agreed Friday to extend his administrative leave until the end of the postseason, a league official said. M.L.B. initially placed Bauer on paid leave on July 2, but the league’s collective bargaining agreement required consent from the players’ union to continue extending it, which has already occurred multiple times. With only 21 games remaining in the Dodgers’ regular season entering Friday’s game, however, and with Bauer still under investigation by M.L.B. and the authorities in Southern California, the sides agreed to sideline him for the rest of the 2021 campaign, including the playoffs. Any league discipline for Bauer, if he is charged with a crime or found to have violated any league policies, would come after the World Series. Bauer,30, has been under investigation by the Pasadena Police Department since a 27-year-old woman accused him of assaulting her in Pasadena, Calif., in May. In late June, the woman sought a temporary restraining order against Bauer, which was granted.
