Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher Trevor Bauer, who hasn’t pitched since June amid investigations into a woman’s sexual assault claims against him, will miss the rest of the season and the playoffs, a Major League Baseball official said on Friday.

Bauer was placed on seven days’ paid leave on July 2 under the MLB and players’ union’s joint domestic violence and sexual assault policy after a Southern California woman said he choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual encounters earlier this year.

Bauer’s representatives issued a statement on Friday saying he had agreed to extend his administrative leave through the playoffs “in a measure of good faith and in an effort to minimize any distraction to the Dodgers organization and his teammates.”

“He continues to cooperate with the MLB investigation and refute the baseless allegations against him,” the statement said. “Again, by definition administrative leave is neither a disciplinary action nor does it in any way reflect a finding in the league’s investigation.”

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Bauer had not pitched since June 29 and was running out of time to get back in condition to return to the mound while games were still being played, so the decision to prolong his absence for the remainder of the season was inevitable.

The regular season is scheduled to end October 3 and the minimum ramp-up time for pitchers is generally regarded as three weeks.

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 The Pasadena Police Department last month delivered the results of its own three-month investigation into the woman’s allegations to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office and the case is under review. The move came a week after Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County denied the 27-year-old San Diego woman’s request for a restraining order against Bauer.

In denying the civil domestic violence restraining order after a four-day hearing, Gould-Saltman said that according to the 27-year-old San Diego woman’s testimony, Bauer honoured her boundaries when she set them. And she said Bauer couldn’t know the boundaries she didn’t express to him.

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The judge noted that in the woman’s communications with Bauer, the woman “was not ambiguous about wanting rough sex in the parties’ first encounter, and wanting rougher sex in the second encounter.”

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.

With inputs from the Associated Press