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The first pitch of the biggest game in the history of the Toronto Blue Jays, live on FOX, will be thrown by future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer. The 41-year-old signed a one-year deal with the Jays ahead of the season for what may or may not have been supposed to be a farewell tour. Suddenly, it has become much more than that.
What might have started as one final season to take it all in has turned into one of the biggest starts of Scherzer’s career.
Scherzer has nothing left to accomplish. He’s a three-time Cy Young Award winner with two World Series titles, a lifetime 3.22 ERA, and 3,489 strikeouts. He will undoubtedly go into Cooperstown in his first year on the ballot. But none of that will be a thought for Scherzer, or any Blue Jays fan, at 8:08 p.m. ET.
This will be Scherzer’s 28th postseason start — his sixth in winner-take-all games, sixth in the Fall Classic, and second in a Game 7 of a World Series (also in 2019 with the winning Washington Nationals). Scherzer will soon become the fourth pitcher in MLB history, along with Bob Gibson (1964, 1967, 1968), Lew Burdette, and Don Larsen (both 1957 and 1958), to start multiple winner-take-all Fall Classic Game 7s.
It is safe to say that Saturday’s outing will only compare to that start against the Houston Astros six years ago. In that game, he gave the Nationals five innings of two-run ball, relying on late home runs from Anthony Rendon, Howie Kendrick, and Juan Soto, and strong bullpen support from Patrick Corbin and Daniel Hudson to preserve the victory. That outing was in a hostile Houston environment.
On Saturday, he will be pitching in front of the home Blue Jays crowd that is starving for its first title since 1993.
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