Trevor Bauer’s accuser, Lindsey Hill, responded Tuesday to the pitcher’s X video in which he revealed texts and one video meant to prove his innocence in response to her sexual assault allegations.
The two settled their dual lawsuits recently without money being exchanged after she accused the 2020 NL Cy Young Award winner of sexual assault.
The agreement between the two allowed Bauer to comment on the case, which led to him revealing the alleged series of texts and video Monday.
One alleged text from Hill to a friend read: “Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers.”
While Hill acknowledged in an interview on “Prime Time with Alex Stein” that victim was not the right word to use, she said it was meant in a joking manner due to her past relationships and is being spun by Bauer without context.
“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 also showed a video following the alleged 2021 sexual encounter in which Hill was smiling and appeared to be without any bruises.
Hill said she was full of emotion at the time, and she had recorded that to send to her cousin to show that everything was fine. She was not even sure if she would speak up about the alleged incident.
She said the lack of bruises is due to the time needed for bruises to form. Hill said she has selfies from that time that clearly showcase damage.
“Any normal person can see that bruises will take time,” Hill said.
Bauer’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Hill’s remarks.
Hill settling the case has put her in the crossfire of some who claim she was lying, and she said that she is “pretty numb to it at this point.”
“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.
He explicitly said in his video: “I never sexually assaulted Lindsey Hill.”
Bauer pitched in Japan this past season.