Trevor Bauer’s attorney aggressively questions the pitcher’s accuser at hearing
Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence.
LOS ANGELES – The attorney for Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer aggressively questioned his accuser in court here Tuesday, bringing up her sexual history with two other Major League Baseball players in an effort to have a restraining order against Bauer dissolved.
This was Day 2 of a civil hearing about whether the restraining order should remain in force against Bauer after his accuser requested it in June. The woman testified Monday that Bauer choked her unconscious during two sexual encounters at his home in Pasadena in April and May, and punched her face and vagina during the second encounter.
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On Tuesday, Bauer’s attorney, Shawn Holley, brought up a series of text messages that Bauer’s legal team obtained from a male friend of the woman. In those messages, there are references to San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. and pitcher Mike Clevinger.
Holley said she was not “slut-shaming (the accuser)” but had to ask the questions because they were relevant to the case in a family law court. “He (the friend) is referring to a sexual relationship you had with Fernando Tatis, is that right?”
After the accuser’s attorney objected, Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltmann overruled the objection and said the woman could answer.
“Yes,” the woman said through tears as Bauer sat silently at the table of his legal team.
The accuser then confirmed that she had lost her job with the Pad Squad, a Padres ambassador program, because of it. She said her relationship with Tatis was in 2019, before she became sober in her battle against alcoholism.
Holley then asked if she considered her relationship with Tatis to be a dating relationship. The woman said no.
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After Holley brought up a reference to “Clev” in the text messages with her then-friend, she asked the woman whether that was Clevinger. The woman said she didn’t want to answer and fought back tears. “He doesn’t need to be brought into this,” she said. After being instructed by the judge to answer the question, the woman said it was and confirmed she had a sexual relationship with Clevinger in October 2020, after she became sober.