LOS ANGELES — Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is facing new allegations of sexual assault, this time from an Arizona woman who in a lawsuit accused him of choking her until she lost consciousness, raping her, impregnating her and holding a knife to her throat.
Bauer, whom the Dodgers released this offseason after he received the longest suspension ever administered under Major League Baseball's sexual assault and domestic abuse policy, denied the claims in a countersuit against the woman and accused her of fraud, extortion and fabricating her pregnancy. The litigation was first reported by USA Today.
According to the woman's lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court in December 2022, she and Bauer had a relationship in late 2020. The lawsuit described several incidents in which Bauer is accused of choking her and forcibly grabbing her, one encounter in which he is accused of holding a jagged steak knife to her throat and another in which he is accused of raping her at an Arizona residence.
