Ralph Robert Scott (July 25, 1947 – October 30, 2011) was a left-handed specialist pitcher in North American Major League Baseball (MLB) who played in portions of five seasons with the Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos and California Angels from 1972 to 1977.

[1] Scott was selected out of Newburgh Free Academy by the New York Yankees in the 17th round (328th overall) of the 1965 Major League Baseball Draft.

He was the first high school baseball player drafted out of the Mid-Hudson region of the Hudson Valley by any MLB club.

In 1971, he collected a 9–1 record with nine saves and a 3.38 earned run average in 54 games for manager Joe Altobelli's pennant-winning and Governors' Cup winning-team.

[7][8] Scott met his eventual wife, Linda Brown, while he was playing for the Binghamton Triplets and she was a sophomore at Ithaca College.