BOSTON — Veteran right-hander Max Scherzer will have fun his 42nd birthday with a start, coming off the injured record and beginning Monday’s sequence opener on the Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider mentioned.
“Max is going to pitch [Monday],” he mentioned following Toronto’s 6-1 sequence finale loss to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Sunday.
“I think just talking to him and understanding where he was physically and how he has recovered from the rehab outing in [Triple-A] Buffalo,” Schneider mentioned. “Maybe a little bit limited in pitch count, but I think he kind of checked all the boxes.”
Scherzer (1-4 with a ten.23 ERA) was positioned on the injured record in mid-June with again spasms however has had varied setbacks, together with three cortisone photographs in his thumb.
He threw 56 pitches in 5 innings, hanging out seven in a rehab start Wednesday.
He has made solely six begins this season for the Blue Jays, who’ve dropped seven of 10 because the All-Star break.
Last season, after being left off the ALDS roster due to late-season struggles, Scherzer was included on the ALCS and World Series roster for the Blue Jays. Toronto misplaced the Series in seven video games to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
He is 222-121 with a 3.27 ERA in 489 video games over 19 seasons and 7 totally different groups. He has two World Series rings, one coming with the Nationals in 2019. The different was with the Texas Rangers in 2023.
