Wife of a Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Tanner Scott she is calling out fans who have sent abusive messages and death threats to her family based on her husband’s performance on the field.
“When did it stop being a game?” Maddie wrote on his Instagram Story on Sunday, May 31, according to The New York Post.
His comments came in response to a message from a user who wrote to him, “A gun shot your family tonight.”
“I don’t talk often.” Actually,” Maddie continued. “I promise you, you don’t know what it’s like unless you live it.”
Maddie’s post comes after Tanner, 31, had a tough outing against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, May 30, in which he allowed three runs on three hits in one inning of work. That includes a heartbreaking home run against Philadelphia Edmund Sosa that allowed the Phillies to overcome a 3-1 inning deficit to win, 4-3.
“The sad truth [in case] you wanted to know,” Maddie wrote in another post, showing a screenshot of six threatening comments from the same user.
“I hope this mutt dies soon,” read another user comment under a photo of the Scotts’ two-year-old son, Bo.
Another post said, “I hope you come home to your family in their blood.”
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Tanner and Maddie announced in May that they are expecting another child, a girl, in the fall.
“I hope it’s still birth,” the user wrote under another post.
Unfortunately, Tanner and Maddie aren’t the only family who have faced threats from fans on social media. Last season, the Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. hired an extra safety with threats sent by his family after he gave up seven runs in an early May 2025 game against the Cincinnati Reds.
He remembered that he had to explain what happened to his daughter Ava, 5.
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“He asked me when I got home: ‘Dad, like, what are the threats? Who wants to hurt us? Who wants to hurt me?’ ” McCullers, 32, told The Associated Press at the time. “So those conversations are difficult to deal with.”
New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler He also reported receiving death threats from Boston Red Sox fans before his start at Fenway Park earlier this season.
“It’s those dead people who have nothing else in their lives but baseball or sports that really care about this, and the fact that I play for the Yankees makes it worse for them,” Schlittler, 25, told The New York Post in April.
