Trevor Bauer investigation handed to prosecutors
LOS ANGELES» Police on Friday presented to prosecutors their investigation of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer in the case of a woman who said he choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual encounters.
The Pasadena Police Department delivered the results of the three-month investigation to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office and the case is under review, district attorney’s spokesman Greg Risling said.
Bauer’s representatives declined to comment. An email seeking comment sent to the woman’s attorney was not immediately answered.
The move comes just over a week after a judge denied the 27year-old San Diego woman’s request for a restraining order against Bauer.
The woman said she sought the order when she learned that the criminal investigation against Bauer was likely to take a long time. She had spoken to police in San Diego when she was in the hospital after her second encounter with Bauer, in mid-may, and gave her account to detectives from Pasadena, where Bauer lives, soon after.
After a four-day hearing last week that aired much of the evidence that police probed and that prosecutors will consider, Judge Dianna Gould-saltman found that Bauer honored the woman’s boundaries when the woman set them, and could not have known about those he violated because she didn’t express them clearly.
“We consider in a sexual encounter that when a woman says no she should be believed,” Gouldsaltman said, “so what should we do when she says yes?”
Gould-saltman called the woman’s petition for the order “materially misleading.”
Bauer’s attorney Shawn Holley said they were grateful for the denial, which they had expected.
The 30-year-old pitcher is also under investigation by Major League Baseball, and could face punishment under its Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. The league put him on paid administrative leave on July 2. On Friday, that was extended until Sept. 3.
Bauer has said through representatives that everything that happened between the two was “wholly consensual” in the nights they spent together in April and May at his Pasadena home.
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The 28-year-old Bote got hurt when he stepped on a ball near some white lettering in foul territory at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Start of Dbacks-phillies game delayed due to virus tracing.
PHILADELPHIA» The start of the game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia on Friday night was delayed 26 minutes due to contact tracing after the Phillies put three players on the COVID-19 injured list.
The game was scheduled to start at 7:05 p.m., but first pitch was at 7:31 p.m..
Earlier in the day, the Phillies put pitcher Zach Eflin, catcher Andrew Knapp and infielder-outfielder Luke Williams on the COVID-19 IL. Knapp was in the original starting lineup but replaced by J.T. Realmuto about 45 minutes before the scheduled first pitch.
Posey returns to Giants lineup; no concussion for Casali.
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Posey started Friday night against the Atlanta Braves.
Giants manager Gabe Kapler also said Friday that catcher Curt Casali, the fill-in starter for Posey who left Thursday night’s 3-2 win at New York due to dizziness, was available off the bench. Kapler said tests on Casali “didn’t find any evidence of a concussion.”