Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott entered the game against the Phillies in the eighth inning Saturday with a 3-1 lead. As he stood on the mound at Dodger Stadium, that lead slipped until Edmundo Sosa belted a two-run homer to give his team the lead.
The Phillies walked away with a 4-3 win over the Dodgers, and Scott recorded the loss. But the nightmare was just starting for the Scott family.
Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott’s wife, Maddie, revealed some death threats that were made after LA lost to the Phillies on Saturday night. Getty Images for Netflix
Tanner’s wife, Maddie Scott, took to Instagram to expose the ghouls who are flooding her inbox and comment section with death threats toward their family, including the couple’s newborn.
“When did it stop being a game?” Maddie wrote on her Instagram Story in response to a message from a user who said “gun shot your family tonight.”
“I don’t speak out often. Ever actually,” she said. “I promise you, you don’t know what it’s like unless you’re living it.”
Maddie posted another Instagram Story captioned, “The unfortunate reality Incase you were curious,” with a screenshot of six comments posted in a three-minute span from the same user, hawk.3112090.
The user’s hateful comments were directed toward Tanner and his newborn child.
“Hope this mutt d i e s soon,” one of the user’s comments read on a photo of the Scotts’ child. Another said “I hope you get home to your family lying in puddles of their own blood.”
“Hope it’s a still b i r t h,” the user wrote under one of the couple’s photos.
The faceless accounts behind the horrid messages and comments have become more common in the rise of internet trolling — deepening safety concerns for professional athletes and their families.
Maddie gave fans a glimpse of what it is like to be the wife of a high-profile athlete, but the battles behind closed doors of a new mother dealing with threats toward their child are impossible to measure on a social media post.
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