The Los Angeles fell 78-63 on Friday at the hands of a walk-off home run by Baltimore Orioles catcher Samuel Basaro.
South Porterner Scott, the man on the mound, threw a 98.7 mph four-stitched fastball at Bassaro, which reached a seat 433 feet apart, but had to improve not only on the team’s fourth straight loss, but also on what is not shown in the uniform.
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“For everyone who throws tonight and has been great, it’s just sucking for it to happen,” Scott said. “It’s awful. It feels terrible. And I have to understand that because baseball hates me right now.”
Scott has a 4.56 ERA per year after four years of $72 million trading this past offseason. In Scott’s 2024 campaign as a member of the Miami Marlins and San Diego Padres, that mark dropped to 1.75 along 22 saves after 72 innings a year.
“I keep making bad pitch choices right when it matters and it costs us every time,” Scott continued.
The fastball he sent to Bassaro, who played his 15th career game in the majors, was Scott’s third consecutive time during that at-bat. The young catcher has hit .270 with .966 and 23 home runs in Triple A this season. It was one swing to finish the night when he looked down in the middle of the plate.
Manager Dave Roberts also mentioned his high leverage struggle, questioning what he called Scott’s pitch mix.
“I thought he threw the ball well tonight,” Roberts said of Scott. “It was one of those things you counted leverage on the guy. You have to expand and go for swings and mistakes. I just thought he wouldn’t make a good pitch. The guy put a good swing on it.
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