Pitcher Trevor Bauer's sex assault accuser Lindsey Hill releases medical reports, photos
Bauer's attorneys say Hill released the material in violation of a protective order. They also questioned the true cause of her bruises.
The woman who accused former Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexually assaulting her in 2021 has released medical reports and photos documenting bruises she said resulted from Bauer assaulting her beyond the rough sex she told him she wanted.
Two photos were taken with a cell phone the day of Lindsey Hill’s encounter with Bauer, one was taken two days after and several others were taken at a hospital during a rape examination.
The photos show marks on her neck and face and bruising under her eyes and around her mouth. The medical reports also describe bruising and “an acute head injury.”
Hill posted the photos and reports on social media over the last three days. She also provided other photos to Legal Affairs and Trials that show heavy bruising on her buttocks and genitalia and are too graphic to be released publicly.
Bauer, who’s currently playing professional baseball in Japan, was a star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers when he was suspended in July 2021 after Hill’s accusations became public. His suspension was reduced to one season after a confidential Major League Baseball arbitration in December 2022 that included testimony about other women who have accused Bauer of sexual assault.
Hill’s new posts on Instagram and X/Twitter follow Bauer’s Oct. 2 video announcement that they’d settled their claims against each other, which started with Bauer suing Hill for defamation and included Hill filing a counterclaim against him for battery and sexual assault. They make clear that her settlement with Bauer did not resolve the conflict that prompted the lawsuit.
“Instead of watching a 4 minute misleading & legally false YouTube video [of a coward who refuses to stand in front of a Judge and be sworn under oath] - check out official rulings from a federal court Judge & a neutral arbitrator / police evidence / metadata verified exhibits,” Hill said on X.
Bauer’s lawyers Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley released a statement on Monday that said Hill has “been unsuccessful in her pursuit of a false narrative for personal gain by all of the institutions our country relies on for criminal and civil liability” and said the judge who rejected Hill’s restraining order request in August 2021 saw the photos and reports.
The statement implies that Bauer did not cause the bruises seen in Hill’s photos.
“Based on her own video account, we now all know what Lindsey Hill looked like when she left Mr. Bauer’s house the morning of May 16 and why he expressed concern and confusion at photos sent to him in the days that followed. Only Ms. Hill knows what happened after she left his house,” according to the statement. The attorneys declined to expand.
Bauer first drew attention to Hill’s Snapchat video in September 2022. It shows Hill in his bed, smirking at the camera and panning to Bauer as he sleeps next to her.
In his Oct. 2 video, Bauer said Hill had “no marks on her face” and said the video “paints a pretty clear picture of what actually happened the evening of May 15 and why the video was originally concealed from us.”
Hill discussed the video in an Oct. 4 interview with Sara Gonzales of BlazeTV, saying it was taken as a Snapchat video — implying it was low quality — and “it was a matter of being in the correct lighting” later for her bruises to show up in photos.
“I think the best way to explain that video is I hadn’t seen my entire body yet. I had no idea what had happened, considering I was unconscious for most of it,” Hill said.
“But if it was that severe wouldn’t you already feel pain? Wouldn’t you already have bruises on your face?” I mean, you say that he punched you in the face. But where are the bruises?” Gonzales asked.
Gonzales glibly summarized Hill’s answer: “So it was a very brutal attack in which you were bruised, but we couldn’t see the bruises because of the lighting.”
Hill said in her new Instagram statement that Bauer used his video “to falsely sway his audience while not including all of the damning 2+ years of evidence against him in this case.”
“Metadata-verified pictures taken 20 minutes after the Snapchat video he falsely believes clears him shows bruises developing all over my face,” Hill said. “There are more than 100 photos from an official medical examination that show my body completely beaten, as well as hospital records where the proof speaks for itself. There also is a 27-minute phone call of acknowledgments, non denials and apologies.”
She posted the photos on her social media and noted the time stamps: 9:28 a.m. and 12:09 p.m. The Snapchat video is time stamped at 9:03 a.m., she said.
Update: Hill also shared this photo she took of herself in Bauer’s house at 3:17 a.m.
Legal Affairs and Trials posted a recording of the 27-minute police pretext call on Oct. 5. It was made on May 21, 2021, by Pasadena police with Hill’s cooperation, and two detectives were with Hill writing down questions for her when she was talking to Bauer.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the call before declining to pursue criminal charges against Bauer. But Hill’s lawyers planned to make it a central part of their civil case, which was both a defense to Bauer’s original defamation claim and an offense for Hill’s counterclaim of sexual assault and battery.
Read a full transcript of the call here.
Bauer initiated the lawsuit in April 2022 after he was suspended from Major League Baseball. His lawyers said in court that he wasn’t blaming Hill for his suspension and was only seeking “nominal damages” because his true goal was “really about showing that these allegations were untrue.”
Bauer and Hill’s Oct. 2 agreement to dismiss their claims against each other exchanged no money but left Hill with a $300,000 payment from her insurance company.
Neither admitted liability, but the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, flagged a Washington Post post about the settlement with a “community note” that links to Bauer’s video and says, “evidence has now been presented by Bauer suggesting that Hill was lying, including video evidence and text messages where Hill calls Bauer her ‘next target’ and outlines her plans to get money from him.”
The note follows X owner Elon Musk asking in a reply to Bauer’s video if Hill’s lawyers were aware of the video being withheld. Bauer responded by saying Hill’s lawyers appeared to have it the entire time, and Musk replied, “Counter-suit?” Bauer never replied to Musk to let him know he was the one who initiated the lawsuit, and it was Hill who filed a counterclaim.
The text messages Bauer displayed in his video included Hill writing to a friend, “Next victim. Star pitcher for the dodgers” and asking “What should I steal?”, to which her friend replies, “Take his money.” She also told a friend, “need daddy to choke me out” and “Being an absolute WHORE to try to get in on his 51 million.” Bauer also said Hill’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor asked her if she feels a little guilty and she replied, “Not really,” though he didn’t display that exchange on screen as he did the others.
In the police-coached call released by Hill, she acknowledged telling Bauer in texts that she wanted to be choked but emphasized she didn’t want to be punched or hit, and that she never asked to be. She also mentioned heavy bruising on her vagina and her two black eyes and swollen jaw.
“I just, like, never said that I wanted to be punched or, like, you know, anything like that. So I just, like, want you know, you’ve been asking me a ton to communicate and, like, let you in and I want to do that so it’s, like, super hard for me to say these things,” Hill said. “And I know for you, too, it’s hard. But I just had to, like, clearly communicate that to you, you know just because of, like, where it ended and, like, the hospital and having to, like, hide it and, like, not be at work and so it does feel better to to talk about it, like I said because I do — I don’t want it to be something where we, like, don’t go, like, get to be still be friends or do whatever because of it. You know?”
Bauer replied, “Yeah, I’ll never. Obviously having clear communication about things now is good. I thought that, I thought that we were, that we had communicated. Obviously, like, I know now that like there’s some miscommunication there and they’re, like, but I’ll — it’ll never happen again. I don’t want you to be, like, afraid to, like, be around me or, like, and if there’s anything I can do to help you, like, you mentioned, like, missing work, like. I just, I want — to want to make sure that you’re OK. Honestly, like, if I can help please, if there’s something I can do.”
Read a full transcript of the call here.
Hill’s new statement on social media cites findings in her medical reports, including a doctor’s observations that she had “multiples bruises over face,” an “acute head injury,” “obvious bruising to both eyes,” “blue‐colored bruise to lower lip and a cut on her upper lip,” “bruising on her left buttock,” and “a large, dark bruise on genital area.”
A report from a licensed clinical social worker at Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San Diego said Hill had “obvious bruising to both eyes, blue-colored bruise to lower lip and a cut on her upper lip.
“Pt willingly showed bruising on her left buttock that appeared to be palm sized with multiple smaller digital shaped bruising surrounding larger bruise. Pt also willingly showed this LCSW a large, dark bruise on genital area,” according to the report.
Bauer’s Oct. 2 video statement focused heavily on the video of Hill in his bed, and he emphasized that it was initially withheld from his lawyers.
The details surrounding that claim hadn’t been fully aired in court before the settlement: Hill’s lawyer said she gave the video to him ahead of the restraining order hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court, but he assumed her lawyers handling the hearing had their own copy so he didn’t provide it to them.
But even without the video, Bauer won the August 2021 superior court hearing when Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman declined to issue a permanent restraining order and said Hill “set limits” with Bauer “without fully considering all the consequences” and Bauer “did not exceed the limits.”
Fetterolf and Holley’s statement on Monday said Hill’s “regurgitated claims on social media omit the fact Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman reviewed everything Ms. Hill is now attempting to circulate — much of which she shared in violation of a protective order — and still concluded that she was ‘materially misleading,’ further noting that she, ‘had and has the right to engage in any kind of sex as a consenting adult that she wants with another consenting adult.’”
“It is inconvenient for Lindsey Hill that Judge Gould-Saltman publicly referenced numerous inconsistencies in her claims and found Mr. Bauer did not engage in any non-consensual activity,” the statement says. “It is even more inconvenient that she took a smiling Snapchat video of herself in bed next to Mr. Bauer the morning after she claimed she was brutally assaulted and desperate to get away from him with no visible injuries, and that we were able to obtain it. Mr. Bauer’s claims have been consistent from the onset and reaffirmed by the pretext call.”
But in the federal case, Senior U.S. District James V. Selna concluded Judge Gould-Saltman never officially decided that Bauer didn’t assault Hill, writing in a November 2022 order, “Based on Judge Gould-Saltman’s conclusions on the record, it is far from ‘clear’ that she found Bauer did not batter or sexually assault Hill.”
Selna’s order also said Gould-Saltman “did not find that Hill consented to all these consequences, only some, and did not delineate between the two with any specificity.”
“Additionally, as noted above, Judge Gould-Saltman did not find that Hill consented to Bauer continuing to engage in sex acts with her while she was unconscious,” Judge Selna wrote.
Bauer’s lawyers obtained Hill’s Snapchat video through Pasadena police last year and were making it a central part of their federal defamation lawsuit against Hill.
But at the same time, Hill’s lawyers had the photos released this week, which show the very marks that Bauer said the Snapchat video showed didn’t exist.
They also won key rulings regarding other women who have accused Bauer of sexually assaulting them, including a woman who testified in his Major League Baseball arbitration in December 2022 and submitted two videos.
The other accusers also include a woman who is suing Bauer for sexual battery in Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona, alleging two assaults in 2021. A jury trial is scheduled for May.
In Bauer’s lawsuit against Hill, U.S. Magistrate Judge Autumn Spaeth in Santa Ana, California, rejected his motion to quash subpoenas against four women who have accused him of sexual assault but granted him motion to quash against a woman who allegedly has information about him planning sexual assaults.
Up until the Oct. 2 settlement, Hill’s lawyers were trying to get the woman who testified in the MLB proceeding held in contempt of court after she didn’t show up for her Aug. 17 deposition. (The woman is represented by prominent attorney Joe Tacopina, whose other clients include Donald Trump.) They also were trying to get a judge to order Bauer to give them the transcript and video of the woman’s MLB testimony.
The woman provided photos to the Washington Post in 2022 that the Post reported “show bruises on the woman’s face and blood in her eyes, which her attorney said were caused by Bauer punching and choking her during sex without consent.”
The Post also described messages Bauer sent the woman, including one in which he wrote, “Like the only reason I’d ever consider seeing you again is to choke you unconscious punch you in the face shove my first up your a‐‐ skull f‐‐‐ you and kick you out naked. And obviously I would never do something like that to anyone. So cant even enjoy the one thing I sometimes enjoyed with you.” In another message, the Post reported that Bauer told the woman, “I don’t feel like spending time in jail for killing someone,” and “that’s what would happen if I saw you again.”
Hill released a screenshot of the messages along with the photos and medical reports.
Hill’s statement also noted the lengths Bauer’s attorneys went to prevent her lawyers from deposing the woman and obtaining her testimony transcript from the MLB arbitration.
“Why did Bauer do so? What was he trying to hide?” Hill asked.
Holley and Fetterolf’s statement did not comment on the other accusers.
“This is now Ms. Hill’s second documented violation of a protective order,” according to the statement. “Mr. Bauer remains unable to share or speak on the majority of evidence obtained by the Pasadena Police Department — including Ms. Hill’s police interviews, which she has yet to share for reasons that will be evident to anyone who views them – out of compliance for the active protective order.”
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So this is what Shawn Holley thought was more important than representing Masterson the first time, interesting.