Judge denies request for restraining order against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer

• After closing arguments, a judge denied a request for a restraining order against Trevor Bauer.

• The woman seeking an extension of the order accused Bauer of sexual assault on two occasions in April and May.

• Bauer and his team have denied all instances of wrongdoing, claiming the encounters were consensual.

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A judge in Los Angeles Superior Court denied a request to extend a restraining order against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on Thursday.

On June 29, a woman, who Insider has chosen not to name, filed an ex parte restraining order that accused the MLB pitcher of non-consensual assault during two consensual sexual encounters in April and May.

She was seeking a five-year extension to this restraining order. Bauer and his team have denied all instances of wrongdoing, claiming the encounters were consensual.

Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman called the accuser's case "materially misleading," while delivering her ruling, and said that "the dating relationship was at most tenuous."

"The court finds that there is no supportable evidence that petitioner will cause her any harm or even reach out to petitioner," Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman said while dissolving the temporary restraining order and denying a permanent one.

Prior to the ruling, both legal teams offered impassioned arguments.

"Trevor Bauer is a monster," the accuser's lawyer Lisa Helfland-Meyer said. "He was aggressively abused as a child, and as an adult, he became an abuser." (The comments were then called out of order.)

Meyer pushed back on the assertion that the woman's interest to hang out with Bauer was nefarious, and reiterated that the woman wanted to impress Bauer and because of that, was reticent to report him after the first alleged assault.

"To quote Tom Hanks 'A League of Their Own' 'there is no crying in baseball.' It appears that's what she wanted to show Trevor," Meyer said.

Meyer said her legal team was asking for a five-year extension of the domestic violence restraining order as well as for Bauer to enter a 52-week batterers' intervention program.

In her closing argument, Meyer argued for the extension partially based on the notion that the woman and Bauer had a dating relationship as defined by California's family code, based on the quantity and nature of their communications.

Meyer also argued that under the Domestic Violence Protection Act and based on evidence heard in court, she believed Bauer had committed sexual assault against the woman.

"A person who is unconscious cannot offer consent," Meyer told the court. Meyer noted that without Bauer's testimony, his case was weakened.

On June 29, Bauer's accuser, who Insider has chosen not to name, filed an ex parte restraining order that accused the MLB pitcher of assaulting her during two sexual encounters in April and May.

Bauer has denied all wrongdoing, and he and his attorneys maintain that the encounters with the woman were "wholly consensual." citing text messages describing rough sex.

In the restraining order and in sworn testimony in court this week, the woman alleged that during their second encounter, Bauer strangled her with her own hair until she lost consciousness and repeatedly punched her in the face, buttocks, and genitals during sexual intercourse.

The woman sought medical treatment, and the forensic nurse who examined her testified Tuesday that she "had never seen" injuries like the woman's before.

Bauer's lawyer Shawn Holley said the woman's allegations "defy credulity."

"Pretending to be something that you are not is a lie," Holley said. Holley referenced text messages sent by the accuser to her cousin where she allegedly bragged about hanging out with Bauer. Some of the texts included GIFs, flirtations, and emojis including hearts and kissing faces.

Holley argued that Bauer was "taking her at her word," when the accuser allegedly expressed interest in "rough" sex over text messages.

"What she doesn't say is don't choke me, don't hit me, don't hurt me," Holley said. "I'm sure it was painful and unpleasant and that is unfortunate - but she asked for these things. She did play a part in that by not speaking up for herself."

Holley argued that Bauer's repeated communication with the woman, including during when she was hospitalized, was a genuine attempt to check in on her and was not based out of concern that he may get into legal trouble. Meyer had told the court that they'll never truly know his intention because he never took the stand.

"There is no frequency," Holley said, arguing that their two encounters did not constitute a relationship. Holley argued that the accuser's testimony amounted to sending, "a fake ambassador to the negotiating table."

In closing, Holley asked the court to deny the petition.

In her rebuttal, Meyer alleged that beyond his "three rules of dating," on their first encounter, Bauer never communicated his sexual interests to the woman. "He broke his own rules," Meyer said.

"I felt I was sitting in a courtroom in the 1950s when I was listening to Holley," Meyer said. "You cannot consent to an assault and battery."

"She went to the media to protect her reputation, and to get justice and filed this order in good faith," Meyer argued in her rebuttal.

Outside the courthouse, Bauer appeared unmoved with his legal team. Holley told reporters that his team was "grateful to the Los Angeles Superior court for denying this permanent restraining order."

"We have expected this outcome," Holley said.

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