Woman says she felt need for protection from Trevor Bauer

LOS ANGELES — A pistillate seeking a five-year restraining bid against Trevor Bauer testified Wednesday that the restitution she expressed to friends erstwhile the lawsuit archetypal went nationalist was a absorption to her attraction by the media, not happiness that she was taking down the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher.

“It felt bully to not spot maine slut-shamed close disconnected the bat,” said the 27-year-old San Diego woman, who alleges that Bauer choked her until she was unconscious and punched her repeatedly successful 2 intersexual encounters earlier this year.

Bauer’s lawyer Shawn Holley, cross-examining the pistillate who was connected the witnesser basal successful Los Angeles Superior Court for a 3rd day, work from substance messages the pistillate had sent to friends erstwhile tribunal documents were archetypal filed successful precocious June. Holley’s questioning suggested she was not seeking protection, but to wounded Bauer.

“Media is freaking out. On my side,” 1 of the woman’s texts read. “It’s the champion happening I could person hoped for.”

Holley asked, “What does the media freaking retired person to bash with your safety?”

The pistillate replied that she had felt Bauer’s squad had shamed her with its connection saying each that had happened betwixt the 2 was wholly consensual, and she was blessed to spot that the media, and the nationalist connected societal media, were not attacking her.

The pistillate was granted a impermanent restraining bid until a proceeding could beryllium held and grounds presented, arsenic is communal successful specified cases.

A fewer days aft she filed the documents, Major League Baseball enactment Bauer, 30, connected paid administrative permission that has been extended done Friday. MLB is investigating the allegations and Bauer could look punishment nether baseball’s home unit policy. Police successful Pasadena, California, wherever Bauer lives and wherever the 2 spent nights unneurotic successful April and May, are besides investigating.

Bauer, who is warring the restraining order, sat successful tribunal and listened to the woman’s testimony, occasionally taking notes and conferring with his attorneys but showing nary disposable reaction. He is expected to instrumentality the basal aboriginal successful the hearing, which volition proceed Thursday and whitethorn agelong longer.

Holley, Bauer’s attorney, asked the pistillate wherefore she felt she needed extortion from Bauer erstwhile helium had made nary interaction with her successful astir a period erstwhile she filed for the order.

“That was what disquieted me,” the pistillate replied, saying Bauer’s soundlessness aft perpetually checking connected her successful the days pursuing the 2nd incidental made her fearfulness helium was readying thing and whitethorn question her retired successful San Diego.

“Did you person immoderate crushed to judge helium was going to travel to your location 130 miles away?” Holley asked.

“Yes, I did,” she said.

Holley besides pointed retired lies that the pistillate acknowledged telling her closest friends successful texts astir erstwhile and wherever the meetings with Bauer happened.

The pistillate said that 1 person had warned her not to spell to Bauer’s location successful Pasadena, truthful she told her the archetypal brushwood happened successful San Diego. Another person was 1 of her bosses, the pistillate said, and she had to prevarication astir the timing of the 2nd Bauer nighttime due to the fact that she had called successful sick.

Holley besides asked the pistillate wherefore she had acknowledged successful messages that she was watching Bauer’s games contempt saying she wanted thing to bash with him.

“You person testified antecedently that you had to delete each your communications with him,” Holley asked, ”but you inactive wanted to ticker him pitch, right?”

“Possibly,” the pistillate answered.

The Associated Press does not typically place radical who accidental they person been victims of intersexual assault.

Bauer agreed to a $102 million, three-year declaration to articulation his hometown Dodgers earlier this twelvemonth aft winning his archetypal Cy Young with the Cincinnati Reds past season.