Jun 23, 2021; San Diego, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Trevor Bauer (27) throws a pitch against the San Diego Padres during the first inning at Petco Park. Mandatory Credit: Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports
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NEW YORK — Trevor Bauer’s accuser, Lindsey Hill, responded to the pitcher’s viral social media post on Tuesday.
Bauer, 33, took to “X” – in which he revealed texts and one video meant to prove his innocence in response to her sexual assault allegations.
“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. 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,” Hill said on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”
“These are just private text messages with my friends and agreed victim is not the word there, 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 revealing a series of texts and video on Monday. The video he posted showed Hill the following morning smiling and appeared to be without any bruises.
“Any normal person can see that bruises will take time,” Hill said.
“I was more than willing to go to trial, more than confident in what that would have portrayed and revealed on a public scale,” Hill said. “Especially over the last year or so [I] have completely crumbled and my soul has been crushed by litigation and all this stuff, and I just made the decision that nothing is worth public vindication or anything like that (compared to) what I was going through and feeling at the moment.
“I just had to make that decision that my mental health and my healing is more important to me than getting every single thing public and bringing the truth to the situation.”
Bauer received a 324-game MLB suspension after the allegations came out, the longest punishment ever handed out for a violation of the league’s domestic violence policy.
“I never sexually assaulted Lindsey Hill,” Bauer said in his video.
