Woman says she was ‘terrified’ during night with Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer

A woman who has alleged she was assaulted by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer said that she was “terrified” during an encounter with the baseball player, adding that she “couldn’t speak and fight back.” 

During testimony in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, the woman, who is not identified by name in reports, delivered harrowing testimony in which she described being choked and punched by the pitcher, according to The Washington Post.

The woman is seeking a restraining order against Bauer, stemming from two sexual encounters that took place in spring 2021, according to the Post. 

The woman recounted to Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman her experience with Bauer, stating that she “felt like my soul left my body,” she said, according to the paper. “I was terrified, and I couldn’t speak and fight back.”

According to the news outlet, the woman stated that she had been choked unconscious by the pitcher and woke to being punched in the cheek bones, jaw and head. She said that he choked her out a second time, and when she came to, he allegedly punched her in the vagina. 

This is the first time the woman shared her allegations publicly. 

The woman also said in her testimony that she “pretended” to enjoy the sexual encounter with Bauer, sharing that the star pitcher made her feel like she wasn’t a “human being” at all, the Post reported. 

Representatives for the player have argued that the woman’s claims are “baseless,” adding that the woman had rough consensual sex with Bauer. The Post added that during court proceedings on Monday, Bauer’s attorney Shawn Holley described the woman as a person with a “plan” who accused the MLB player of assault for money. 

“She left out the part where she asked for rougher sex and said that she’d never been more turned on than when she was choked out,” Holley said, according to the Post. 

The remarks come as Bauer, the reigning 2020 Cy Young award winner, has been placed on administrative leave by his team after the allegations surfaced in June. 

The Post also reported that Bauer, 30, was a subject of a previous protective order in 2020, in which he was accused of threatening to kill an unidentified woman after she filed a police report alleging that Bauer assaulted her. 

Major League Baseball has begun an investigation into the allegations against Bauer, the Post noted.