Trevor Bauer admits to hitting accuser Lindsey Hill in a newly released 27-minute phone that was recorded on May 22, 2021 as part of the Pasadena Police Department’s investigation into her sexual assault claims against the former Cy Young winner.
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‘I’m in a lot of pain, and I don’t remember specifically asking you to hit me,’ Hill said to Bauer in the recorded phone call. ‘Did you mean to hit me that hard?’
‘No, and that’s why it’s confusing,’ Bauer is heard responding. ‘I didn’t feel like I hit you that hard, you know? And certainly… I tried telling you multiple times, ”Do you want to stop? Are you OK?” And you said to keep going. So I just was trying to follow your lead on it.’
The call, released Thursday by Legal Affairs and Trials, is the latest development between Bauer and Hill, who both admit to having two sexual encounters in the spring of 2021. But while Hill says she consented to having sex with Bauer, she claims he went overboard by punching her, choking her unconscious, and sodomizing her without her consent. She was denied a permanent restraining order in 2021 and Bauer was never charged in the case.
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The pitcher, who maintains his innocence, was suspended for 194 games by Major League Baseball. At the end of his ban, Bauer was released by the Los Angeles Dodgers in January and recently completed his first season pitching in Japan. He is set to become a free agent, but it’s unclear if major league teams will be interested in bringing him back to North America.
(Right) Trevor Bauer steps out of the courthouse after the last day of the hearings on August 19, 2021. (Left) Bauer’s accuser, Lindsey Hill, pictured in August of 2021 before a previous hearing
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The recording had not been previously heard publicly as the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to press charges against Bauer.
In response to the release of the phone call, Bauer’s attorneys Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley provided a statement to Mail Sport.
‘Trevor Bauer and Lindsey Hill had consensual rough sex and the pretext call confirms that his version of events — the truth — never wavered, despite her attempts to get him to admit what she told the police,’ the statement began.
‘Throughout the call, Mr. Bauer politely disagreed with her assessment multiple times while still trying to be thoughtful and courteous to a person he believed was a friend, rather than a person trying to deliberately set him up by recording this call, unbeknownst to him, with the police.’
Last week, the pair settled their respective defamation counter lawsuits against each other before Bauer posted a video on social media, accusing Hill of concocting a scheme to extort money from him by falsely accusing him of sexual assault.
Money did not exchange hands in either lawsuit, but Hill’s attorney Bryan J. Freedman says his client received a $300,000 insurance settlement.
Hill allegedly told a friend that she would be an ‘absolute w***e’ to take some of Bauer’s money
In the video, Bauer shows texts allegedly sent from Hill saying he’d be her ‘next victim’
Bauer (seen pitching for the Yokohama BayStars) has faced other sexual misconduct claims
The legal resolution between the two allowed Bauer to comment on the case, which prompted him to release his version of events in a video shared on X last Monday.
One alleged text sent from Hill to a friend, which Bauer revealed, reads: ‘Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers.’
Bauer said that she made the statement about him being her ‘next victim’ in a text that was sent ‘before she ever even met me’ and that she was advised to ‘take his money’.
After finding out Bauer’s net worth ($51million at the time), Hill said she would try to get some of his money by ‘being an absolute w***e to try to get in on his 51million’ and that she would ‘need Daddy to choke me out’.
Bauer said that 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 ‘deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team’, according to Bauer.
While Hill acknowledged that ‘victim’ was not the right word choice, she claimed she used it in a way in which she was joking, mainly due to her history of dating baseball players. (She has also been linked to San Diego Padres slugger Fernando Tatis Jr.)
‘This was exactly what Trevor wanted to do was random pick three or four texts and weave it into a narrative where I just look horrible,’ she said on ‘Prime Time with Alex Stein.’
‘I explained that in my deposition and random things. I like to joke, I’m very sarcastic, sometimes inappropriate. Anyone who knows me would know that.
‘These are just private text messages with my friends and agreed victim is not the word here, but [in] my past I have been involved with other baseball players, that was my world at the time and I had already dated baseball players and it was a funny, sarcastic way to say, ”Here’s the next one I’m going to try to get attention from,” and it was a lot of ego and attention-seeking behavior, which is what I can own and what he can’t do is own any part.
‘I can totally own the attention-seeking behavior but these texts in the grand scheme don’t address what happened at all. This was before any of our interactions or anything like that.’
Bauer posted a video to social media speaking about the incident for the first time since 2021
But Bauer says this video was taken the day after the alleged assault – with no visible injuries. Bauer also says that he was recorded in his sleep by Hill ‘without my consent, of course’.
Bauer’s accuser, Lindsey Hill is pictured with bruises around her eyes in one legal filing
Bauer also shared a video purportedly from the morning after the alleged 2021 sexual assault showing Hill’s unbruised face smiling towards the camera.
Hill, however, claims to have been 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 fine.
She even went so far as to say that she was unsure she would ever be able to speak up about the alleged encounter, adding that the lack of bruises on her body have to do with the video’s timing. Bruises usually take several days to appear.
‘Any normal person can see that bruises will take time,’ Hill said.
She also claimed to be in possession of selfies from that time that clearly points to physical injury.
Furthermore, photographs of Hill contained in her legal filings obtained by DailyMail.com show her with bruises on her face.
