{"id":290433,"date":"2025-10-09T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:09:10","slug":"dodgers-vs-phillies-game-4-live-updates-watch-score-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290433\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers vs. Phillies Game 4 live updates, watch, score, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanner Scott removed from NLDS roster due to abscess incision, Justin Wrobleski added <\/p>\n

Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott<\/a> was removed from the team\u2019s National League Division Series roster on Thursday after having a lower-body abscess incision the night before, manager Dave Roberts<\/a> announced before Game 4 of the series.<\/p>\n

Scott was replaced on the roster by left-hander Justin Wrobleski, and will be ineligible to play in the National League Championship Series under MLB\u2019s postseason injury rules if the Dodgers do advance.<\/p>\n

Coming off a dismal regular season<\/a> in which he had 4.74 ERA and MLB-most 10 blown saves, Scott had yet to pitch, or even warm up, at any point in this postseason.<\/p>\n

Then, this week, he began dealing with an abscess in an unspecified area of the lower half of his body.<\/p>\n

Roberts said signs of the issue first popped up during the team\u2019s Tuesday night workout. However, leading up to Game 3, general manager Brandon Gomes<\/a> said the team \u201cthought he was on the other side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That did not prove to be the case. Scott was not only in too much pain to even report to Dodger Stadium for Wednesday night\u2019s contest, but instead went for an incision procedure that Roberts described as an \u201curgent matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was planning to come [to the ballpark],\u201d Gomes said, \u201cbut was like: \u2018I gotta go. This is too painful.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Gomes said it left the Dodgers with too little time to replace Scott on the roster for Game 3 \u2014 and insisted that, even if they had, any of the pitchers they would have replaced him with would have been either unavailable or not \u201call that fresh\u201d for Game 3 after the team\u2019s extended live batting practice session at Tuesday\u2019s workout.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It was a] tight window, and factoring that in, it was like, \u2018Let\u2019s just see where we\u2019re at today,\u2019\u201d Gomes said. \u201cAnd then made the move.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, not having, or replacing, Scott came with some unexpected consequences in the Dodgers\u2019 Wednesday night defeat; effectively contributing to their need to pitch Clayton Kershaw<\/a> in relief for a second \u2014 and what proved to be disastrous \u2014 inning of work in the eighth.<\/p>\n

At that point of the game, Anthony Banda and Jack Dreyer had already pitched. The club\u2019s only remaining relievers (Roki Sasaki, Alex Vesia and Blake Treinen, who ultimately pitched the ninth) were of higher-leverage variety.<\/p>\n

Roberts would have loved to keep what was a 3-1 score at the time close, and force the Phillies to bring closer Jhoan Dur\u00e1n into the game for a six-out save \u2014 one that, Phillies manager Rob Thomson acknowledged postgame, would have left him available for only one inning in Game 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any,\u201d Thomson added with relief.<\/p>\n

But, Roberts didn\u2019t want to use his better relievers in a losing game either.<\/p>\n

Thus, Kershaw returned to the mound following a shaky but scoreless seventh inning, and immediately wrote another ugly chapter into his haunting postseason history, giving up five runs that put the game out of reach and allowed the Phillies to stay away from Dur\u00e1n for the final two innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould have loved to get Dur\u00e1n in the game tonight,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

Gomes attempted to downplay the impact of the team\u2019s delay in removing Scott from the roster, reiterating the notion that \u2014 given the live BP before \u2014 any replacement would have been unable to make a notable contribution to Game 3.<\/p>\n

Still, the situation loomed over the team ahead of another close-out opportunity in Game 4 on Thursday, with the Dodgers only able to hope that their inability to get Dur\u00e1n into the game the previous night wouldn\u2019t end up costing them.<\/p>\n

As for Scott, both Roberts and Gomes said the left-hander could be an option for the World Series if the Dodgers get there. His timeline for recovery is roughly 1-2 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, if we advance, it takes him off for the CS,\u201d Gomes said. \u201cAnd then we\u2019ll see where we\u2019re at after that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanner Scott removed from NLDS roster due to abscess incision, Justin Wrobleski added Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1641,1582,276,8329,2442,1910,487,2961,224,2444,5337,143955,14762,2083,139595,143954,2450,6620,24683,29238],"class_list":{"0":"post-290433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-am","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-dodger","12":"tag-dodgers","13":"tag-game","14":"tag-hbo-max","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-national-league-division-series","20":"tag-odd","21":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","22":"tag-radio-broadcast","23":"tag-tbs","24":"tag-thursday","25":"tag-time","26":"tag-trutv","27":"tag-tv-schedule"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115346732802793789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}