It's a Good Name for You: the Max Scherzer thread

lol yes

14 K in 7 innings against the Yankees. (99 pitches, but still in there.)

max scherzer is 0-for-45 this season with zero walks

he does have two sac bunts and a sac fly

gonna reach 3000 K in his next start

absolutely lights-out since being traded

is his deal with washington the best huge contract ever?

if you asked me how many pitchers are there with 3000 Ks i would've guessed more than 19. like at least 30.

anyway scherzer is #19

You could also track his game on another thread...80 pitches, two more innings.

Damn. A perfect game, 3,000th K, and an immaculate inning would have been a pretty good start.

Lowest ERA in 1st 8 appearances with a team, all starts (single season since ER official in both leagues, 1913):

2021 Max Scherzer, LAD: 0.88
1998 Randy Johnson, HOU: 1.00
1984 Phil Niekro, NYY: 1.04

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 12, 2021

I really had no idea the "immaculate inning" -- nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts -- was so rare. scherzer joined sandy koufax and chris sale as the only pitchers in history with three such innings in their career

I'm the only person on here who pays the least bit of attention to this tabulation (I won't call it a stat), but Scherzer moved ahead of Kershaw into 4th place on Baseball Reference's Cy Young Share list:

1. Roger Clemens (7 wins) 7.66
2. Randy Johnson (5 wins) 6.50
3. Greg Maddux (4 wins) 4.92
4. Max Scherzer (3 wins) 4.61
5. Clayton Kershaw (3 wins) 4.58
6. Steve Carlton (4 wins) 4.29
7. Pedro Martinez (3 wins) 4.26
8. Justin Verlander (2 wins) 4.21
9. Tom Seaver (3 wins) 3.85
10. Jim Palmer (3 wins) 3.57

Two two will be there forever, probably, but Scherzer may pass Maddux for third.

Two two = top two

Thought “two two” was some weird nick name I’d never heard before!

lol

Max Scherzer has "rattled some with his tough negotiating style" over the past few days https://t.co/hyhg976Erv pic.twitter.com/w54vrb88Ny

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 1, 2022

oblique strain, out 6-8 weeks

Dog bites man, man bites dog, Rafi bites Max.

https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-gets-dog-bite-on-throwing-hand

Verlander out for almost three weeks, pitches 5 no-hit innings with a walk and 9 strikeouts. Sixteen days between starts for Scherzer, 6 perfect innings with 9 strikeouts. Old guys need their rest to get by.

Terrible news for the Texas #Rangers:
Max Scherzer has a low-grade strain of the teres major muscle in his right shoulder that ends his season.

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 13, 2023

Dodging the Casas rematch. Between this & Verlander vs the A’s Steve Cohen’s step is lighter today.

Will be joining Kershaw:

https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-back-surgery-on-herniated-disc

If he'd stayed healthy the past few years, I guess he would have hit 250 wins and 4,000 strikeouts. Doesn't really affect anything else, but too bad.