Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, 31, has sued a woman who accused him of sexual assault after what he insists was consensual rough sex.
Bauer’s legal team filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on April 25 against the accuser, Lindsey Hill, and her lawyer, Fred Thiagarajah, TMZ reported.
Neither has commented on the allegations they now face.
The suit was filed two months after prosecutors in Los Angeles said they wouldn’t file charges against the sportsman, although he remains suspended from his team while a Major League Baseball internal investigation continues.
Bauer and his lawyers haven’t specified the amount of damages they’re seeking, with an award likely to be decided at trial if they win.
The one-time Cy Young award winner has long denied any wrongdoing in his sexual encounters with Bauer, which occurred in April and May 2021 at his home in Pasadena.
Texts exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com show Hill texted him after their first encounter urging Bauer to ‘choke me out’ and ‘gimme all the pain.’
Trevor Bauer steps out of the courthouse after the last day of the hearings in August 2021. During those hearings, a restraining order imposed upon Bauer against Lindsey Hill was lifted
Bauer says that Hill concocted her a story about non-consensual sex alongside her lawyer Fred Thiagarajah. Thiagarajah told The Washington Post in February 2022 that his client had been ‘brutalized’ by Bauer
The attorney for Bauer’s alleged victim, Bryan Freedman, asked TMZ Sports to publish an unredacted photograph showing his client’s alleged injuries saying the damage could NOT possibly be part of a consensual encounter
Hill’s lawyer Fred Thiagarajah, pictured, is also being sued over claims he lied on his client’s behalf
At the time of the sexual encounters, Lindsey Hill was 27 years old.
Bauer has been suspended from playing in the MLB since July 2, 2021.
The latest suspension expires on April 29. At the time of writing, MLB is continuing to investigate the allegations against Bauer.
In his lawsuit, Bauer admits to the sexual encounters with Hill but says that she gave him consent to sodomize, choke and hit her.
Bauer’s suit accuses Hill of pursuing him after their first sexual encounter to entrap him into a ‘a rougher sexual experience.’
Texts obtained by DailyMail.com in July 2021 showed Hill telling Bauer how much she’d enjoyed rough sex with him after their first encounter
The conversation then becomes increasingly sexual as Bauer asks her to describe what she wants him to do during their next meeting
He alleges that she did that ‘so she could later claim this sexual experience was not what she requested and thereby lay the groundwork for a financial settlement.’
The lawsuit says that Bauer earnestly believed that Hill was just expressing sexual preferences during her pursuit of him.
Due to Hill’s allegations, Bauer said that his relationship with the L.A. Dodgers was damaged thus costing him millions of dollars.
Bauer was banned from playing shortly after he joined the Dodgers from the Cincinnati Reds.
Following their liaisons, Bauer alleges that Hill concocted a story to police about sexual assault for financial gain. The suit says that Hill ‘generated a media blitz based on her lies,’ reports ESPN.
Her lawyer, Thiagarajah, is accused in the lawsuit of aiding Hill in creating her story.
Bauer goes on to say that the graphic images Hill’s face apparently battered and bruised were edited to appear worse, he says that Hill deleted phone records during the investigation and as well of making inconsistent statements.
Initially, Hill alleged that she awoke following her second dalliance with Bauer with a bruised vagina and buttocks, black eyes, swollen and cut lips, scratches as well as bruising on her gums.
Hill said that following her second encounter with Bauer, she went to a hospital where she was diagnosed with an acute head injury while he says she left with a slightly swollen lip
In the latest lawsuit, Bauer says that Hill merely had a slightly swollen lip when she exited his home in May 2021. While Hill alleges that she went to a hospital where she was diagnosed with a head injury.
One section of the suit read, ‘At all times during both sexual encounters, Mr. Bauer respected the boundaries established and agreed upon with [the woman].’
The lawsuit cites alleged text messages that Hill sent to her friends about a potential financial windfall stemming from her relationship with Bauer.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney announced in February 2022 that no sexual assault charges would be forthcoming against Bauer.
Bauer’s latest suspension from action expires on April 29. He’s been out of contention for the Dodgers since July 2021, shortly after he first joined the team from the Cincinnati Reds
At that time, Thiagarajah told The Washington Post that it would be ‘daunting’ for prosecutors to pursue charges against Bauer.
He said that the decision not to move forward with charges was ‘not a declaration of innocence; it’s a declaration of ‘I don’t have enough evidence to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt.’ And there’s no doubt that Mr. Bauer just brutalized [the woman].’
The new lawsuit says that, ‘At the time that Mr. Thiagarajah made these statements, he knew that his client had submitted a `materially misleading’ Petition to the California Superior Court in order to obtain a restraining order,’ reports USA Today.
Earlier, in August 2021, the restraining order that Hill had implemented against Bauer was lifted after a judge ruled that he posed no threat to the alleged victim. The same judge ruled against Bauer’s legal team’s request for access to Hill’s phone records in April 2022.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action that Bauer has taken in relation to the allegations.
In March 2022, Bauer filed suit against online publishers Deadspin and The Athletic, as well as the latter’s former reporter Molly Knight, over articles written about the original allegations.
