GLENDALE, Ariz. Trevor Bauer immerses himself in an emerging rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres with one eye.
The popular acquisition of the Dodgers season took its first innings against the Padres on Saturday afternoon, mostly hitting with his right eye, a training method he regularly uses as a way to make him uncomfortable.
“I thought if I could not score with one eye open, it’s going to be hard to shoot me with two eyes open,” Bauer said after throwing three points without a turn from the Dodgers facility. “Just a little fun.”
Bauer did not go into the reasons why he occasionally chose to keep an eye out, although Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said it had to do with recalibrating his assignment.
“I think there might have been one curveball I did with both eyes closed,” Roberts said, holding on laughing. “I do not know, but there is a method for his madness.”
Bauer, 30, said he regularly keeps at least one eye closed in the grind while playing a long toss and when facing off-season victims. It.”
Bauer dedicated a single to Jurickson Profar to begin his outing. He struck a nine-tone bat and then walked to Tommy Pham before retiring the next three batsmen, the last two to be struck. In the next two innings – apparently with both eyes open – he retired six of the seven victims he faced.
The Padres played a Friday night game and did not play most of their beginners, meaning Bauer did not get a hit again at third man Manny Machado, who is famous for 588 / .667 /. 1,412 against him in 17. appearances of career records. Bauer previously made a YouTube video analyzing Machado’s success against him, and Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman joked about the desire to find out something against Machado shortly after he signed Bauer for a three-year contract $ 102 million.
Bauer joked that Machado was “already diving me” by not undertaking the trip.
When the games started counting, Bauer said he would have a lot of chances against him.
“Just wait,” Bauer said behind a wry smile. “It’s going to be a fun year.”