LOS ANGELES — Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer filed a defamation lawsuit against the sports news website Deadspin on Thursday, claiming the outlet “knowingly published false information” in its coverage of sexual assault allegations made against Bauer last year.
The lawsuit contends that Deadspin “capitalized on a false accusation” that the pitcher fractured the skull of a woman who filed a petition for a restraining order against him. The lawsuit says that while other outlets later corrected their reporting after medical records attached to the woman’s petition showed no skull fracture and instead described an acute head injury, Deadspin “pushed forward with the false narrative of a skull fracture.”
The Los Angeles Times was among the media outlets that reported the court filing and later published a correction to its description of the woman’s head injury.
