A Los Angeles court awarded Trevor Bauer a default judgement of more than $300,000 against Lindsey Hill, a woman who had accused the former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher of sexual assault, after Bauer claimed that Hill violated the terms of a settlement reached in a prior suit.
Hill accused Bauer of sexual assault, and her allegations led to Bauer’s 192-game suspension under the Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy, the longest ever handed down by the league for a violation. After Hill and Bauer sued each other over the allegations, they reached a settlement in 2023 that dismissed the lawsuits with no money changing hands.
Last October, Bauer filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that Hill had violated the terms of the settlement agreement 22 times by stating in social media posts and elsewhere that Bauer had paid her as part of the agreement. He claimed that Hill was required to pay $10,000 for each violation, and in addition, sought attorney’s fees and prejudgment interest. Bauer sought a default judgment against Hill because she has not done anything to contest the suit and failing to appear in court. In total, Bauer was awarded $220,000 in damages, $68,940 in attorneys’ fees, about $4,260 in costs and about $14,285 in interest, for a total of $309,832.02.
In a post on X, Rachel Luba, a player agent who represents Bauer, said, “Trevor Bauer has won his lawsuit against Lindsey Hill for falsely claiming that Bauer paid her any monetary amount to settle their original lawsuit, and she is ordered to pay him $309,000 in damages. Now, the only money ever exchanged between the two is Hill paying Bauer $309,000. Bauer has still never paid her a cent.”
Trevor Bauer has won his lawsuit against Lindsey Hill for falsely claiming that Bauer paid her any monetary amount to settle their original lawsuit, and she is ordered to pay him $309,000 in damages.
Now, the only money ever exchanged between the two is Hill paying Bauer… https://t.co/cqM5sl4Jds
— Rachel Luba (レイチェル・ルーバ) (@AgentRachelLuba) June 3, 2025
Bauer, the 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner with the Cincinnati Reds, signed a three-year, $102-million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in February 2021. He was placed on administrative leave when Hill’s allegations surfaced and later received the harshest suspension in MLB history under the league’s domestic violence policy. This 324-game ban was later reduced to 192 games by an arbitrator following an MLB investigation into allegations of sexual assault made by a San Diego woman and two women in Ohio, where Bauer had previously pitched for Cleveland and Cincinnati.
One of Bauer’s accusers was later charged with fraud in Maricopa County, Arizona, shortly after he made his first appearance pitching in the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol with the Diablos Rojos del Mexico last year.
Despite Bauer’s repeated avowals of a willingness to pitch in Major League Baseball for the league’s minimum salary, no MLB team has shown interest in signing him.
He spent the 2023 season in Japan with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball, before pitching in Mexico in 2024, where he won the Lanzador del Ano award after leading the LMB in strikeouts, fanning 120 in 80 1/3 innings. He returned to Yokohama for the 2025 season with the goal of winning the Eiji Sawamura Award, given to the best pitcher in NPB each year. He has made 10 starts for the BayStars this year, posting a 3.30 ERA in 71 innings with 66 strikeouts.
Hill, Bauer’s original accuser, remains defiant, posting yesterday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, “I was awarded 300k over what he did to me in 2021, and I refused to participate in this suit in any way shape or form. He will never see a cent. I refuse to give him money or my sanity. Love yall!”
Photo: Former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer poses for photographers in his new DeNA BayStars uniform during an introductory press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on March 24, 2023. Bauer, who was suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault, has signed a one-year deal with DeNA. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)
