The wife of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tanner Scott is calling out fans who have sent harassing 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 via her Instagram Story on Sunday, May 31, according to the New York Post.
Her comment came in response to a message from a user who wrote to her, “Gun shot your family tonight.”
“I don’t speak out often. Ever actually,” Maddie continued. “I promise you, you don’t know what it’s like unless you’re living it.”
Maddie’s posts came after a rough outing for Tanner, 31, against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, May 30, in which he allowed three runs on three hits in one inning of work. That included a back-breaking home run to Philadelphia’s Edmund Sosa that allowed the Phillies to overcome a 3-1 eighth-inning deficit to win, 4-3.
“The unfortunate reality [in case] you were curious,” Maddie wrote in another post, showing a screenshot of six threatening comments from the same user.
“Hope this mutt d i e s soon,” read one of the user’s comments under a photo of the Scotts’ two-year-old son, Bo.
Another post said, “I hope you get home to your family lying in puddles of their own blood.”
Tanner and Maddie announced in May that they are expecting another child, a girl, due in the fall.
“Hope it’s a still b i r t h,” the same user wrote under another post.
Unfortunately, Tanner and Maddie are not the only family that has had to deal with fan threats on social media. Last season, Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. hired additional security over threats sent to his family after he gave up seven runs in a May 2025 start against the Cincinnati Reds.
He recalled having to explain what was happening to his daughter Ava, 5.
“She asked me when I came home: ‘Daddy, like, what is threats? Who wants to hurt us? Who wants to hurt me?’” McCullers, 32, told The Associated Press at the time. “So those conversations are tough to deal with.”
New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler also reported receiving death threats from Boston Red Sox fans before making his first start at Fenway Park earlier this season.
“It’s just those diehards that just have nothing else in their lives other than 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.
