Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer faces another accusation of sexual assault

Content warning: This story includes allegations of sexual assault that may be difficult to read and emotionally upsetting.

Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was accused by an Arizona woman of sexual assault and choking her unconscious, according to court filings in which the woman alleged that Bauer raped her and got her pregnant in late 2020. The woman also alleges four other incidents during which Bauer physically assaulted her — including holding a steak knife to her throat. The court filings, initially made last December and updated recently, were first reported by USA Today.

Bauer denied the allegations in the court records and countersued the woman, accusing her of extortion and of fabricating her pregnancy.

According to court filings, the victim’s attorney sent a demand letter to Bauer in January 2022 seeking $3.6 million in payment. That followed two in-person meetings in which she requested $1 million from Bauer. The filings detailed that Bauer had sent the victim $8,761.09 spread out over five Venmo transactions between December 2020 and April 2021 “for alleged medical expenses accrued by” the victim.

The woman is the fourth person to accuse Bauer of sexual assault. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office declined to bring charges against Bauer last February for claims made by a San Diego woman in 2021. Over the summer, two other women alleged similar interactions with Bauer in the past, as first reported by the Washington Post. Bauer has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

The Dodgers released Bauer in January after serving a 194-game suspension, the longest in the history of Major League Baseball’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy. The Dodgers had signed Bauer to a three-year, $102 million deal in February 2021. He currently plays professionally in Japan.

“Most of what we know came from the fact that the commissioner’s office and the independent arbitrator reviewed all the aspects of the case and found him to be in violation (of the policy),” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said in February of the decision to release him. “As we went through that, that was enough for us.”

Releasing Bauer, club president Stan Kasten added at the time, was “unanimous among the people that are charged with having to make this decision.”

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