LOS ANGELES — The video lasts nine seconds, with no sound. Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer appears to be asleep in bed, with a mask over his eyes. Next to him in bed, his attorneys say: the woman whose sexual assault allegations against Bauer triggered the investigation that resulted in his two-year suspension from Major League Baseball.
The woman took the video herself, according to attorneys for Bauer. On Tuesday night, in asking a federal court to throw out the woman's claim against Bauer for sexual battery, the attorneys included in their court filing a video they said was obtained from the Pasadena Police Department and taken at Bauer's home after he allegedly injured her during a sexual encounter on May 16, 2021.
"She appears to be willingly in bed with a sleeping Mr. Bauer, and is smirking and uninjured," the attorneys wrote. In the video, no facial injuries are apparent.
