College student says she ‘felt harassed’ by Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer on Twitter

A Texas State University finance major hadn’t heard of Trevor Bauer when she chided the Cleveland Indians pitcher on Twitter over the weekend. 

Days later, Nikki Giles told USA TODAY Sports she’s been reduced to tears by the barrage of responses from Bauer and some of his 135,000 followers. Giles said she’s reported the harassment to the Indians via the team’s official Facebook page and flagged three of Bauer’s tweets in a complaint to Twitter. 

“It has definitely ruined my last three days,” Giles told USA TODAY Sports. “I have cried daily and called my family crying because the first 12-24 hours or so I was getting a lot of hate.”

The interaction began Saturday night after Bauer responded to a tweet from Giles’ favorite player, Houston’s Alex Bregman: “Thanks for admitting I’m better than you ?”

Giles jokingly tweeted a response to Bauer writing, “My new least favorite person in all sports.”

Bauer appeared to play along  – writing “Welcome to the fan club ?” – before things escalated. Giles and Bauer traded barbs, including Giles mentioning that Bauer doesn’t have a World Series ring. 

Bauer then ramped things up.

"He went almost a year back into my Twitter to find a tweet about me drinking two months before my 21st birthday and exposed it to his followers," Giles said. 

Bauer also alleged Giles, a senior in college, was the instigator.  

“He blamed me for ‘continuously tweeting him,’ ” Giles said. (That) makes zero sense because he had tagged me in over 40 tweets, which is over 10x as many tweets I mentioned him in.”

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