Lindsey Hill, who accused former MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer of rape and assault, had a 27-minute phone conversation with him in the days after the alleged assault.
The call was secretly recorded by the Pasadena Police Department with Hill’s cooperation, and was publicly released on Thursday, just days after Bauer revealed text messages showing Hill was asking friends about how to get Bauer’s money even before she met him in person. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to charge Bauer, but Hill used the phone call as evidence against the pitcher in her lawsuit.
Hill apparently told Bauer about her alleged injuries from their second sexual encounter, injuries that were not present in a video she filmed of herself lying in bed with Bauer the morning after this allegedly violent encounter. The video also shows Hill smirking at the camera and in no distress.
But in the May 22, 2021, phone call, obtained by Legal Affairs and Trials, Hill leads Bauer into a conversation about him allegedly crossing boundaries. Throughout the phone call, Bauer maintains that he kept asking Hill “Do you want to stop? Are you OK?” but she told him to keep going.
Later in the phone call, Hill said that she wanted them both to “accept boundaries and, like, move forward, but, like, for my own peace of mind, like, I just have to communicate, like, I never, like, said it was a free for all.” Bauer replied that he never meant to hurt her.
He also told her that he was confused that she could have sustained the injuries she claimed to have based on their activity.
“We, like, checked multiple times about having a safe word and, like, and all that, like, I thought that it was, like — I thought you were OK,” he said. “I would check multiple times like, ‘Hey are you OK? You want to stop or not?’ You said no. So, like, I was — that was kinda my way of, like, trying to make sure that we weren’t crossing any boundaries.”
Bauer has always maintained that the pair had rough sex, but that it was consensual. On Monday, the two settled their lawsuits against each other with neither paying a penny to the other. Hill, however, will receive $300,000 from her insurance company.
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After the phone call was released, Bauer’s attorneys, Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley, issued a statement noting that the phone call proves what Bauer has always said about his innocence.
“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 attorneys said.
“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,” the added. “He continuously notes that they discussed her preferences and boundaries in advance; how she asked him to be physical; how he checked on her multiple times during intercourse to confirm she was enjoying herself and to ensure that she wanted to continue; that he was following her lead; that it was his understanding—based on what she had told him—that she was experienced with and enjoyed rough sex; and he expressed his confusion at her alleged injuries given what did and did not take place. While there was consensual slapping at her request, he never punched Ms. Hill.”
Once the settlement was announced, Bauer released a video revealing some of the text messages Hill sent to her friends prior to meeting Bauer and after their encounter that suggests she was always focused on getting money from him.
“‘Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers,’” Bauer begins in the video with a picture of Hill’s text. “A text Lindsey Hill sent to a friend before she ever even met me. ‘What should I steal?’ she asked another, in reference to visiting my house for the first time. The answer? ‘Take his money.’ So how might that work? ‘I’m going to his house Wednesday.’ she said, ‘I already have my hooks in. You know how I roll.’ Then, after the first time we met, “Net worth is 51 mil” she said. ‘b—h, you better secure the bag,’ was the response.”
“But how was she going to do that?” Bauer continued. “‘Need daddy to choke me out,’ she said. ‘being an absolute whore to try to get in on his 51 million,’ read another text. Then, after the second time we met, former [San Diego] Padres pitcher Jacob Nix told her ‘you gotta get this bag.’ ‘I’ll give you 50,000’ Lindsey replied. Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, ‘do you feel a tiny bit guilty?’ ‘Not really,’ she replied.”
Bauer said these messages were “deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal team” until he filed his lawsuit against Hill and the case entered discovery.
He also played a video taken just minutes before Hill left Bauer’s house in the morning after the alleged assault, showing her in bed next to him smirking at the camera with no evidence of injury or distress.
He said Hill’s legal team had approached him for money, but after this evidence was turned over, they approached with a settlement offer that included no money. He agreed to a settlement that allowed him to publicly discuss the case since he could not do so for legal reasons prior.
“Now over the last two years, I’ve been forced to defend my integrity and my reputation in a very public setting, but hopefully this is the last time I have to do so, as I’d prefer to just remain focused on doing my job, winning baseball games and entertaining fans around the world. So today I’m happy to be moving on with my life,” Bauer concluded his video.
After the settlement, Bauer’s attorneys released a statement.
“Trevor Bauer and Lindsey Hill have settled all outstanding litigation,” Bauer’s attorneys, Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley, said in a statement on Monday, according to Fox News. “Both of their respective claims have been withdrawn with prejudice, effective today. Mr. Bauer did not make — and never has made — any payments to Ms. Hill, including to resolve their litigation. “
“With this matter now at rest, Mr. Bauer can focus completely on baseball,” the attorneys added.
Bauer was suspended for 324 games due solely to the allegations, but that ban was reduced to 194 games by an independent arbitrator in December, Fox reported. No team picked him up, so he began playing in Japan for the Yokohama DeNa Baystars, where he was 10-4 with a 2.76 ERA and 130 strikeouts in 19 games.
This article has been updated to include a statement from Bauer’s attorneys.