[外電] MLB開始調查Bauer的使用球

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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 pitcherTrevor 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, thefocus 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--2007年是32189次，2019年是42823次--這段期間剛好是大家注意放在球轉速的時間。

To help deter any doctoring of baseballs, MLB has not only placed compliance
officers in each stadium to monitor batting practice and dugouts but has alsopartnered with Rowlings to track data postgame to identify any abnormalities
in the performance of the balls used.
為了避免任何影響比賽用球的狀況，聯盟不僅在各個球場都安排了安檢人員去監視打擊練習以及休息室狀況，他們更跟Rowlings公司合作，追蹤所有的賽後數據，好去找出使用球是否有異常。

However, while the league made clear that it was turning its focus towards
deterring any tampering, they did not specify the punishment for getting
caught, opening the door to less than severe repercussions for Bauer if he isfound to be guilty.
不過，儘管聯盟很清楚表示他們把目標指向任何的違規情事，但是他們並沒有明確列出若是有抓到違規會有怎樣的處罰，這像是開了個後門，若Bauer真的被抓到有罪的話，他也不會有很嚴重的影響。

“I don’t believe unless you can catch somebody in the act, doing it in the
moment, and you get something on their hand or on their person, that you can
truly prove 100 percent that they are doing it,” one general manager told
Rosenthal. “We all know. But to suspend somebody for 10 games, you’ve got
to have real evidence.”
「除非真的現場抓到，就在違規的當下，抓到有東西在他們手上或身上，所以我不認為大家能夠百分之一百確定他們有違規的，」一位MLB教練跟Rosenthal說。「這大家都知道
的，但是若真的要禁某人10場比賽的話，真的要證據確鑿。」
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