Following his subsequent signing with Los Angeles, Scott experienced significant command issues and mechanical flaws during the 2025 regular season.
The organization's attempts to make him more aggressive stripped away his pitch deception, leading to multiple blown saves and home runs allowed.
Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes later revealed that Scott had played through a lingering lower-body injury for a large portion of the 2025 season.
His regular-season struggles culminated in consecutive walk-off home runs surrendered in September.
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The lowest point of his season occurred just before Game 4 of the National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, when the Dodgers removed Scott from the active roster so he could undergo a medical procedure to treat a lower-body abscess.