Trevor Bauer admits to hitting accuser Lindsey Hill in a newly released 27-minute phone call recorded on May 22, 2021 as part of the Pasadena Police Department’s investigation into her sexual assault allegations against the former Cy Young winner became.
“I’m in a lot of pain and I don’t remember specifically asking you to hit me,” Hill told Bauer in the recorded phone call. “Did you mean to hit me that hard?”
“No, and that’s why it’s confusing,” Bauer can be heard replying. “I didn’t feel like I hit you that hard, you know? And of course I tried to tell you several times, “Do you want to stop?” Are you okay?” And you said to keep going. So I just tried to follow your example.’
The call, published Thursday by Legal Affairs and Trials, is the latest development between Bauer and Hill, who both admitted to having two sexual encounters in the spring of 2021. But while Hill says she consented to sex with Bauer, she claims he went overboard by hitting her, choking her unconscious and sodomizing her without her consent. In 2021, she was denied a restraining order and Bauer was never charged.
The pitcher, who maintains his innocence, was suspended for 194 games by Major League Baseball. After his suspension expired, Bauer was released by the Los Angeles Dodgers in January and recently completed his first season as a pitcher in Japan. He is set to become a free agent, but it is unclear whether major league teams will be interested in bringing him back to North America.
(Right) Trevor Bauer leaves the courthouse after the final day of hearings on August 19, 2021. (Left) Bauer’s accuser Lindsey Hill, pictured in August 2021 before an earlier hearing
HILL BAUER CALL RECORDED BY POLICE MAY 22, 2021
LINDSEY HILL: “I really appreciate all your sweet messages and things and they really make me feel better.”…To me, obviously, it’s kind of a blur because I felt like I was coming out of consciousness, coming into consciousness and coming out of it. So I asked you to hit me?’
TREVOR BAUER: “Yes.”
HILL: “Oh yeah. OK.
“I’m trying to come to terms with this because I’m obviously in a lot of pain and I don’t remember specifically asking you to hit me.” “Did you mean to hit me that hard?”
FARMER: “No.”
“And that’s why it’s confusing.” I didn’t feel like I hit you that hard, you know? And of course I tried to tell you several times, “Do you want to stop?” Are you okay?” And you said to keep going. So I just tried to follow your example.’
The recording had not previously been heard publicly because the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against Bauer.
In response to the release of the phone call, Bauer’s lawyers Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley issued a statement to Mail Sport.
“Trevor Bauer and Lindsey Hill had consensual rough sex and the pretext call confirmed that his version of events – the truth – never budged despite her attempts to get him to admit what she told police,” the statement began.
“Throughout the call, Mr. Bauer politely disagreed with her assessment several times, while trying to be considerate and polite to a person he believed to be a friend, rather than a person who was intentionally trying to trick him by calling him Recorded call without him knowing, with the police.’
Last week, the two settled their respective defamation lawsuits against each other before Bauer posted a video on social media in which he accused Hill of hatching a plan to extort money from him by falsely accusing him of sexual assault .
No money was exchanged in either lawsuit, but Hill’s attorney, Bryan J. Freedman, said his client received $300,000 in insurance compensation.
Hill allegedly told a friend that she would be an “absolute bastard” if she took any of Bauer’s money
In the video, Bauer shows text messages allegedly sent by Hill saying he was her “next victim.”
Bauer (seen pitching for the Yokohama BayStars) has faced other allegations of sexual misconduct
The legal resolution between the two allowed Bauer to speak out about the case, leading him to release his version of events in a video shared on X on Monday.
An alleged text Hill sent to a friend that Bauer revealed to the public read, “Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers.”
Bauer said that she made the statement that he was her “next victim” in a text message sent “before she even met me” and that she was advised to “take his money.”
After finding out Bauer’s net worth (then $51 million), Hill said she would try to get some of his money by being “an absolute bastard trying to get his $51 million,” and that she would “need” “Daddy should suffocate me”.
Bauer said Hill’s AA sponsor asked her if she felt guilty, to which she replied, “not really.”
All of these messages and other “critical information” were “intentionally and illegally hidden from me and my legal team,” said Bauer.
TREVOR BAUER’S LAWYERS RESPOND TO RECORDED CALL
The following is a statement from Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley, Trevor Bauer’s lawyers, provided to Mail Sport:
Trevor Bauer and Lindsey Hill had consensual rough sex and the pretext call confirmed that his version of events – the truth – never wavered, despite her attempts to get him to admit what she told police.
Throughout the call, Mr. Bauer politely disagreed with her assessment several times, while trying to be considerate and polite to a person he believed to be a friend, rather than a person who was trying to intentionally mislead him , by recording that call without him knowing. with the police. He repeatedly notes that they have discussed their preferences and boundaries in advance; how she asked him to be physical; how he checked on her multiple times during intercourse to make sure she was having fun and to make sure she wanted to continue; that he followed their example; that based on what she had told him, he assumed that she had experienced and enjoyed rough sex; and he expressed confusion about her alleged injuries, considering what did and didn’t happen. Although there was consensual slapping at her request, he never hit Ms. Hill.
If Mr. Bauer had committed the alleged acts and that call had been the crucial evidence Ms. Hill was hoping for, the Pasadena police — who coordinated the call — would have arrested him. They did not consider this recorded call as probable cause for an arrest or as evidence that Mr. Bauer had admitted what Ms. Hill had accused him of. Rather, it was further evidence that Ms Hill’s claims were not credible.
Even at the DVRO hearing under oath, when discussing the pretext call, Lindsey Hill testified that Mr. Bauer did not admit to doing the things she alleged. But since Ms. Hill has released the pretext call to the public, we encourage you to listen. Because Mr. Bauer’s receipt of the fake call was subject to a protective order, he was unable to provide it or Ms. Hill’s recorded police interviews. He couldn’t discuss them either. Notably, Ms. Hill appears not to have released her recorded police interviews, further corroborating Ms. Bauer’s story.
While Hill admitted that “victim” wasn’t the right choice of word, she claimed that she used it in a way that she was joking, largely due to her previous relationships with baseball players. (She has also been linked to San Diego Padres slugger Fernando Tatis Jr.)
“That’s exactly what Trevor wanted to do: He picked three or four texts at random and wove them into a narrative where I just look terrible,” she said on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”
“I explained that in my statement and in random things. I like to joke, I am very sarcastic, sometimes inappropriate. Anyone who knows me would know that.
“These are just private text messages with my friends and I agree that victim isn’t the right word here, but.” [in] In my past I dated other baseball players, that was my world at the time and I had already dated baseball players and it was a funny, sarcastic way of saying, “That’s the next one I’m going to try.” “Taking attention,” and it was a lot of ego and attention seeking behavior that I can own and what he can’t do is own any part of it.
“I can fully attest to the attention-seeking behavior, but these texts by and large don’t address what happened at all.” This was before any of our interactions or anything like that.”
Bauer posted a video on social media talking about the incident for the first time since 2021
But Bauer says this video was taken the day after the alleged attack – with no visible injuries. Bauer also says Hill recorded him sleeping “without my consent, of course.”
Bauer’s accuser, Lindsey Hill, is pictured in a court filing with bruises around her eyes
Bauer also shared a video following the alleged sexual assault in 2021, in which Hill is smiling without appearing to be bruised.
However, Hill claims that she was going through a whirlwind of emotions at the time and that she recorded the video to send to her cousin to show that everything was okay.
She even went so far as to say that she wasn’t sure if she would ever be able to talk about the alleged encounter, adding that the lack of bruises on her body had to do with the timing of the video have. Bruising usually takes several days to appear.
“Any normal person can recognize that bruises take time,” Hill said.
She also claimed to be in possession of selfies from that time that clearly indicated physical assault.
Additionally, photos of Hill included in her materials obtained by show her with bruises on her face.