Trevor Bauer and MLB's Sticky Baseball Dilemma
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It's been an eventful few days for the Los Angeles Dodgers. On Thursday it was revealed that MLB was inspecting baseballs used by the team's new star pitcher, Trevor Bauer, in a game against the Oakland A's -- and that the balls had visible markings and were sticky, according to an exclusive report from The Athletic. The following day, the team played its home opener in Dodger Stadium, in front of thousands fans (for the first time in more than a year), and hoisted its 2020 World Series championship banner. The Athletic's Molly Knight joins us to break down the Dodgers' up-and-down start to the 2021 season, why players from a former dynasty think the Dodgers will repeat as champions, and the dilemma that Major League Baseball faces as it tries to rein in the widespread use of sticky substances.
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| 0:59.0 | On Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally got to celebrate their 2020 World Series title with their hometown fans. |
| 1:06.0 | And then they continued their early season dominance. |
| 1:09.0 | Climb on to Life Center Field and that one's gone! Justin Turner is a one man band this afternoon in LA. |
| 1:18.0 | But just a little earlier, it was reported that the league is inspecting suspicious baseballs used by pitcher Trevor Bauer in a recent game. |
| 1:25.0 | Today, the athletics Molly Knight on the Dodgers roller coaster of a start to the season and the dilemma that Major League Baseball faces |
| 1:33.0 | as it tries to rein in the widespread use of sticky substances. |
| 1:37.0 | On the one hand, it's obviously they've had their issues with steroids first and then the astro sheeting scandal and all these things. |
| 1:44.0 | And they don't want something like that infecting their game. |
| 1:47.0 | On the other hand, if there's news every week that someone's getting in trouble, it takes away from the product on the field. |
| 1:54.0 | From Wondery and Diathletic, I'm Anders Keltow. It's Monday, April 12th and this is the League. |
| 2:00.0 | So Molly, Friday was the home opener for the Dodgers and they finally got to celebrate their World Series title with their home fans inside Los Angeles's best known COVID testing and vaccination site. |
| 2:13.0 | Yeah. |
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