Trevor Bauer pitched his first game in just over 22 months and scattered seven hits over 7 innings and got a 4-1 victory against the Hiroshima Carp before a record crowd of 33,202.
of any Yokohama player at the start of the game, Trevor Bauer delivered what was expected on Wednesday in his debut with the Yokohama DeNA Baystars.after the Los Angeles Dodgers released him earlier this yearBauer, scattered seven hits in 7 innings, allowed one run, struck out 9 and threw 98 pitches in a 4-1 victory against the Hiroshima Carp before 33,202, which the team said was a record.Pitchers still bat in Japan’s Central League, where the DH is not used.
Bauer’s first game has been long awaited in Yokohama, which has not won the Japanese season championship since 1998. Bauer is expected to deliver with the team now leading the Central League.“I felt great,” Bauer said."I just felt normal, the body felt good: command, velocity, results. All good. It was a great day.”
Billboards all over town announced his arrival, including a seven-story poster that went up Wednesday on the side of a Yokohama department store. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred suspended Bauer in April of last year after a San Diego woman said he beat and sexually abused her in 2021. Bauer disputed her claims and said everything that happened between them was consensual.
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