Lawyers for Blue Jays first baseman Edwin Encarnacion have asked a New York court to throw out a $11.5-million lawsuit by a 24-year-old woman who claims Encarnacion knowingly infected her with two sexually transmitted diseases earlier this year in the Dominican Republic. Filed Tuesday, before Encarnacion drove in two runs for the Blue Jays in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, the motion calls on the court to dismiss the woman’s claims both on jurisdictional and factual grounds. The lawsuit was filed in August by Ashley Lebron, a family friend of Encarnacion who grew up in the Dominican Republic across the street from Encarnacion’s aunt. She alleges Encarnacion knowingly infected her with genital herpes and chlamydia when they had unprotected sex in February at Encarnacion’s home in the Dominican. She filed her lawsuit in New York, where she lives.

Source: thestar October 19, 2016 18:11 UTC