Thirty-year-old left-hander Tanner Scott had his worst outings in his thus far 28 games since donning a Dodgers uniform in his team’s 4-3 loss to the NL East first-place New York Mets in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 48,556 on Monday night, this despite his teammate’s valiant bottom-of-the-10th-inning effort at a comeback.

“It’s getting hit a lot, so it sucks right now, and ahh, last year I relied on it a lot and this year it’s getting hit and I’m missing locations,” Scott said postgame of his now very-hittable fastball.

Try as he may, there was nothing Dodgers manager Dave Roberts could say to minimize just how horrible Scott was on Monday, but he indeed tried.

“Umm, I think with Tanner, it’s, ahh, it’s just missed location,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters postgame when asked about Scott’s train wreck on Monday. “…I just think it’s, it’s just, I think it’s, it’s just sort of just missing in the big part of the plate or the wrong part of the plate given a particular hitter … the command just isn’t where it needs to be right now.”

Ya think?

Although the Dodgers made things interesting by adding a run in the bottom of the 10th on a RBI single to right by suddenly red hot Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages scoring placed runner Teoscar Hernández from second base, their night ended on a comebacker to Mets right-hander José Buttó by Dodgers second baseman Tommy Edman with two outs and runners at the corners.

With the loss, Scott is now 0-2 on the season with a demotable (or DFA-able) 4.73 ERA. It also now has the Dodgers only one game ahead of the second-place San Diego Padres in the NL West.

But today’s a new day.

Play Ball!

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