Jake Bauers took Tanner Scott’s first slider for a strike and missed a 97.0 mph fastball. Three balls brought the count full before Bauers tipped an 89.8 mph slider into the catcher’s glove for a strikeout. That six-pitch confrontation supplied the middle out of an eighth inning built around baserunners and deliberate walks.
Scott recorded three outs on nine physical pitches in the Dodgers’ 2–1 NLCS Game 1 loss to Milwaukee at American Family Field on October 11. He inherited Jackson Chourio at first, allowed no hits and was charged with two walks, both intentional. Neither intentional walk added a pitch to the ledger.
The inning ended with the bases loaded after Scott retired Garrett Mitchell on a grounder. Its useful distinction is between pitching execution and game decisions: nine tracked deliveries produced the contact and strikeout outs, while the two intentional walks altered the base situation without a thrown pitch.
Season repertoire and Game 1
Scale: 0–100%. Gray: regular season. Blue: Game 1.
Slider
Change: +26.9 percentage points.
Four-seam fastball
Change: -26.9 percentage points.
Seven sliders, two fastballs
Scott threw seven sliders and two four-seamers. Slider share was 77.8%, compared with 50.9% across 963 pitches in 69 regular-season Dodgers relief appearances from March 26 through September 26. Nine pitches against three hitters who actually received deliveries make this a very small selection sample.
Sliders averaged 89.5 mph, close to the baseline’s 89.3. The two fastballs averaged 97.3 mph against 96.9 during the season. Scott recorded three misses in five attempts, including Bauers’ caught foul tip, which counts as a miss under the article’s stated rule. Fouled contact outside the catcher’s glove would be a different result.
His 60.0% whiff rate compares with 35.5% in the season relief sample. Two misses came from sliders and one from a fastball. Those rates describe the actual five-attempt opportunity rather than establishing a changed strikeout skill, and the zero-pitch intentional walks never enter that denominator.
Jake Bauers: inning 8
The base traffic and the physical record have different totals
Brice Turang bunted Scott’s first pitch, an 88.7 mph slider, to advance Chourio to second. William Contreras was intentionally walked before Bauers’ strikeout. Andrew Vaughn was then intentionally walked, loading the bases for Mitchell. The official five batters faced includes both hitters who received no physical pitch.
Mitchell took a slider for a ball, then hit a 90.1 mph slider at 106.3 mph for the inning-ending groundout. The strong contact was an actual out after a defensive play. It should not be described as harmless contact solely because no runner scored.
The two balls put into play had very different exit speeds: Turang’s bunt at 26.7 mph and Mitchell’s grounder at 106.3. Their 66.5 mph average hides that contrast. The complete table preserves both contacts and keeps the two intentional walks in the game account outside the nine-row pitch ledger.
Scott stranded Chourio and the runners added by the intentional walks, preserving Evan Phillips’ scoreless line and keeping the Dodgers within one run. His appearance demonstrates a completed situational escape with a slider-led sequence. A larger comparable opportunity would be needed before interpreting its pitch share or missed-swing rate as a durable change.
Inning samples in context
| Inning | Pitches | Cumulative | Slider mph | Measured n | Outs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 9 | 9 | 89.5 | 7 | 3 |
Every pitch: 9 of 9
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| Pitch | Inning | Hitter | Count before | Type | mph | Pitch result | Completed PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Brice Turang | 0–0 | SL | 88.7 | In play, out(s) | Sac Bunt | |
| 8 | Jake Bauers | 0–0 | SL | 89.1 | Called Strike | Strikeout | |
| 8 | Jake Bauers | 0–1 | FF | 97.0 | Swinging Strike | Strikeout | |
| 8 | Jake Bauers | 0–2 | SL | 89.5 | Ball In Dirt | Strikeout | |
| 8 | Jake Bauers | 1–2 | SL | 89.7 | Ball | Strikeout | |
| 8 | Jake Bauers | 2–2 | FF | 97.5 | Ball | Strikeout | |
| 8 | Jake Bauers | 3–2 | SL | 89.8 | Foul Tip | Strikeout | |
| 8 | Garrett Mitchell | 0–0 | SL | 89.4 | Swinging Strike (Blocked) | Groundout | |
| 8 | Garrett Mitchell | 0–1 | SL | 90.1 | In play, out(s) | Groundout |
Sources, definitions and limitations
The official final MLB record supplies events, final calls and the line. Baseball Savant’s complete Game 1 feed supplies all 9 physical pitches. Pitch ID, order, classification and pre-pitch count reconcile, including final ABS decisions. These records contain 5 batters, 3 integer outs and 1 strikeouts. In baseball notation, .1 means one out and .2 two outs. Source records current as of October 12, 2026. Two intentional walks contain no physical pitches. They remain in the official five batters faced and two walks but add no rows to the nine-pitch ledger.
The Statcast Search baseline is 963 physical pitches in 69 regular-season relief appearances for Los Angeles Dodgers, 2026-03-26 through 2026-09-26. Each game total reconciles with the official appearance log. Target game, postseason work, other clubs and other roles are excluded.
Whiff rate means misses divided by physical swing attempts. Swinging strikes, blocked swinging strikes, caught foul tips and missed bunts count as misses. Fouls, bunt attempts and balls put into play enter the attempt denominator. Both outing and baseline use the same definitions. Called strikes and completed strikeout plate appearances are separate. Chase uses ball-center coordinates outside a 17-inch-wide rectangle and each pitch’s recorded vertical boundaries. Only complete coordinates enter the zone denominator. Savant’s separate zone flag remains in the CSV and detail rather than replacing that geometric definition.
Speed is mph, spin rpm, extension feet and movement inches. Induced vertical break describes movement relative to a gravity-only path. Location and zone boundaries are feet in catcher view. Numbered markers preserve exact coordinates and are not ball size. Release, location, spin, extension and movement measurements are complete for all outing pitches. Contact and expected-outcome measurements can be unavailable and remain missing in the detail and CSV. 2 of 2 balls put into play have measured exit speed. Hard-hit means at least 95 mph; the baseline has 153 measured contacts among 153. Expected outcomes are Savant model estimates, not actual results. The comparisons are descriptive and do not establish intention, fatigue, injury or a durable trend.
