The Los Angeles Dodgers fell to 78-63 on Friday at the hands of a walk-off home run by Baltimore Orioles catcher Samuel Basallo.

Southpaw Tanner Scott, the man on the mound who hurled a 98.7 mph four seam fastball to Basallo that ended up in the seats 433 feet away, spoke on not just the dissapointment of his team’s fourth loss in a row, but having to improve upon what has been a lackluster showing in a Dodgers uniform.

“For everyone that threw tonight and was great, for that to happen, it just sucks,” Scott said. “It sucks. It feels terrible. And I have to figure it out. Because baseball hates me right now.”

Scott has a 4.56 ERA on the year, after inking a four-year, $72 million deal this past offseason. During Scott’s 2024 campaign as a member of the Miami Marlins and San Diego Padres, that mark was down to 1.75 to go along with 22 saves after his 72 innings on the year.

“I just keep making terrible pitch selections right when it matters, and it’s costing us every time,” continued Scott.

The fastball he sent towards Basallo, playing in just his 15th career game in the majors, was Scott’s third in a row during that at-bat. The young catcher was hitting .270 in Triple-A this season with an OPS of .966 and 23 home runs, and when he saw the four seamer down the middle of the plate, all it took was one swing to end the night.

Manager Dave Roberts also remarked on the struggles of his high-leverage closer, and also called Scott’s pitch mix into question.

“I thought tonight he threw the ball well,” Roberts said of Scott. “It was one of those things where you’ve got count leverage on a guy, you’ve got to expand and go for the swing-and-miss. I just thought right there he didn’t make a good pitch. The guy put a good swing on it. I thought in totality the stuff was good but, yeah, the one pitch when you get 1-2 and you make a bad pitch – he made us pay for it.”