Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has criminal case handed to district attorney

WARNING: The following story concerning Trevor Bauer and the District Attorney’s office contains allegations of a graphic nature. Please proceed with caution.

The Pasadena Police Department concluded its investigation into sexual assault allegations against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on Friday, handing the case to the district attorney, according to ESPN.

The burden now lies on the DA to decide whether to move forward with the case. The MLB extended Bauer’s administrative leave an additional week to Sept. 3 in light of the news.

His accuser claims that Bauer sexually assaulted her, choking her unconscious multiple times, sodomizing her without consent and punching her all over her body over the course of two sexual encounters at his Pasadena, California, home on April 22 and May 16. The beatings left her with injuries that needed medical attention.

She obtained a temporary restraining order against him in late June. A judge later dismissed her request for a permanent restraining order on Aug. 19. The judge stated that Bauer did not pose a continual threat and the woman’s injuries were the result of “consensual rough sex.”

The woman admitted the interactions were initially consensual, including the request to be choked unconscious. Bauer’s legal team presented text message evidence that proved this. However, she claimed in her testimony that Bauer took it too far.

The Dodgers pitcher hasn’t played since June 28 and hasn’t been allowed to be in the clubhouse since July 2. He is still being paid. The MLB will decide whether to suspend Trevor Bauer based on the decision of the District Attorney’s Office.

Last year’s Cy Young Award winner, Bauer is the highest-paid player in the MLB with a salary of nearly $40 million.

It took the police department three months to conclude its investigation of Trevor Bauer, which means it could be a while before he learns the district attorney decision.

On Aug. 14, the Washington Post published a story stating that an Ohio woman accused Bauer of punching and choking her during sex in their three-year relationship and that she filed a restraining order petition last summer, only to withdraw it six weeks later.

Bauer’s attorneys called that woman’s allegations “categorically false” and denied her assault allegations.