Scherzer এর ফায়ার জেসদের M এর সাথে সিরিজ টাই করতে সাহায্য করে
David Schoenfield
Oct 17, 2025, 12:17 AM ET
SEATTLE — The material couldn’t be more vintage. Max Scherzer, three-time Cy Young Award winner, owner of a fastball that once ranked among the game’s best and future Hall of Famer, even at 41 years old, has plenty of mileage on him after 18 seasons and more than 3,000 innings. In old highlights, Scherzer’s vintage intensity is unmistakable.
Making his first start of the postseason after a tough regular-season finish, Scherzer pitched 5⅔ innings, allowing two runs and three hits, in the Toronto Blue Jays’ 8-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.
Don’t mistake “Mad Max” for anything else.
Scherzer struck out Randy Arozarena on a 79 mph curveball to end the inning and later got two outs in the sixth after two walks and throwing 87 pitches.
In the first inning, Cal Raleigh walked with one out and then Julio Rodriguez walked on four pitches. A couple of Toronto’s bullpen pitchers started stretching, just in case the inning started to get away.
It made sense given how Scherzer finished the season: He had a 9.00 ERA in his final six starts, allowing 25 runs and eight home runs in 25 innings. In his final start Sept. 24, he gave up 10 hits in five innings. In the start before that, he was knocked around in the first inning of a 20-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals.
He wasn’t on the roster for the AL Division Series against the New York Yankees, but the Blue Jays were loaded with relievers and he might have been used out of the bullpen in Game 4.
“I don’t want to put too much stock into it,” Scherzer said Wednesday when asked about his health. “Look, you have hiccups all the time, you have injuries all the time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pitched with something and I’ve gone out there and pitched well and won. So I don’t want to sit here and go back and blame whatever I can for injuries. When I take the mound, I take the mound.”
He doubled in his first career at-bat Thursday, where he practiced playing the game.
In 1-2 innings – including a double in back-to-back innings. After the inning, he jumped toward the mound on the plate, as he often does, a mind picture that marked his path. He then realized that the referee was controlling his team.
He gave up a home run to Josh Naylor in the second inning, but settled down from there, pitching a variety of off-base pitches (slider, curveball, change-up) along with 45 fastballs.
With the win, Scherzer became just the fourth starting pitcher age 41 or older to win a postseason game, joining Kenny Rogers, Roger Clemens and Dennis Martinez.
It also ended a five-game hitting streak in the 2021 NLCS, an extension where he went 0-2 with a 7.71 ERA.
Also, he became the first pitcher to start for six different teams.
Scherzer also got help from Toronto’s tough offense — and perhaps a questionable hook of Mariners starter Luis Castillo in the third inning by crew manager Dan Wilson.
The Jays scored on Andres Gimenez’s two-run home run — making it two straight games that Toronto’s No. 9 hitter, Gimenez, delivered the early home run — which was used in relief when Wilson brought Gabe Speier, a hit on the head. But the move backfired when Dalton Varsho walked Speier, and then added George Springer RBI doubled fourth. Wilson brought Matt Brash for his other reliever, but a wild pitch made the Jays make it 5-2.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added a home run in the seventh inning to right center — his fifth of the day and the Blue Jays’ 17th in eight postseason games.
During Jain’s ninth innings, many sailors left the innings.
Fans tracked from Canada were singing “Let’s go, Blue Jays!”
প্রকাশিত: 2025-10-17 11:24:00
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