#MLBVideos: VINTAGE MAD MAX 🤪 Max Scherzer turns back the clock with strong ALCS outing!

VINTAGE MAD MAX 🤪 Max Scherzer turns back the clock with strong ALCS outing!

The 41-year-old Max Scherzer, his 31st postseason game, the 500th of his career. He’s going to be a gloveside fastball type pitcher. He can throw to both sides of the plate. He’s going to be amped up with his fast ball. If I’m the Seattle Mariners, I try to get aggressive off his fast ball, get on base, and maybe take some bases. That’s the breakdown. He’s got all the experience, but does he has does he have the connectivity to his slider, change up, and curveball? his first pitch of the night to Rosarena is a fast ball that’s cut on and missed. Then you go from facing the potential MVP to probably the most talented guy on the field to the guy that’s been the best hitter on the Mariners in this postseason and Jorge Palano. He’s looked so calm, so comfy up there, leading all players in the championship series with five hits and five runs batted in. Great patience so far by the Mariners. They’re an aggressive swing and miss type home run hitting ball club. First and second, one away. Sherzer’s 10 is bounced along first and foul. Well, since his last postseason win, game one of the World Series in 2019, Sherzer with a 5RA. won it all again in 2023 with the Texas Rangers, but has not gotten a win in six years in the playoffs. Raleigh at second, Rodriguez at first. Palanco takes us right back in there at one and two. That’s the change up you’re used to seeing him throw. That is the one that equalizes the fast ball. I mean, that has that screw ball type ball just fades away from the left-handed hitter. Here’s where he could not put guys away in September. Numbers through the roof with two strikes. 25 runs allowed his last 25 innings pitched. Was not on the division series roster. Activated for this championship series trying to get it tied up at two games a piece. is one two to Jorge Palano. Bounced up the middle. Could be two. There’s one. And a toss to first. A double play. Max Sherzer storms off of the field for a first inning zero. Pitching around the pair of walks. Sherzer in his 18th year. Faces Cal Raleigh, home run champion. Represents the tying run and takes downstairs. 60 during the regular season, three in this postseason after he went deep last night. Bonds, Maguire, Sosa, Judge, Dumper, guys with 63 home runs in a year. Bottom of the zone strike. Well, he’ll remind the umpire about that strike. Ali’s catching if he doesn’t get it. Three hits in this series. Two of them have been homers. Toss over the first and close play. Brad saying he wants to take a look. Max Sherzer has not picked anybody off in nine years. Have to review the calls overturned. The runner is out and Toronto will retain their count. So Revas picked off first base and the base is wiped clean. extra big time to do it with Raleigh at the plate. The one-1 from Sherzer fouls off a fast ball that was on a T4. That’s one K would like to have back. Here comes the one, two. Raleigh tries to lay off, but he went around. Strike three. Max Sherzer’s first strike out of the game comes against Kale Raleigh. Welcome back to Seattle where the Mariners got on the board first with a Josh Naylor home run in the second inning. That is all. It’s the only hit against Max Scherzer, but the Blue Jays offense has again come out firing. Three runs in the third, two runs in the four. Rodriguez leads off and takes a strike from Sherzer. I think he probably is already deeper into this game than a lot of people thought he would go given how he would look down the stretch, giving up a run per inning in September. Yeah. Well, this is a must score inning for the Seattle Mariners and they’re they’re starting to feel I mean, you never admit it, but they’re starting to feel like this team offensively is way better than we’ve shown and what we’re capable of. And they have to get back in this game right here because Max Scherzer has been given an extra um an extra dose of adrenaline with this lead. You said velocity was not going to be any issue for him. Pete Walker, the pitching coach, was saying that he hoped that it would be 93 to 95 and it’s been 94 95 fresh and but the big thing for me is he’s been able to spin his curveball in key moments. He has three walks, but he’s made pitches when he needed to when runners were on base. One, two to Rodriguez. Breaking ball and a beauty. That looks like the old Shers are spinning that curveball in there to strike out Rodriguez. And that would have been the only concern I had for a guy who hadn’t pitched in over a month. And he’s gotten better as the game’s gone on, separating his velocity with a change of speed, whether it’s the change up or this breaking ball. Suarez, man, would they love for Einio Suarez to run into one as he did 49 times during the regular season. good in this postseason below 150. Yeah, really swinging up like he would have to get a hanging breaking ball or belt high fast ball, but he is really trying to lift the baseball up in the air. Max is saying, “I got a sweet pickoff move.” just flipped it out. He picked off Leo Rivas last inning. His first pickoff in nine years. Here’s a Zo to Suarez. Oh no. Went around strike two. I mean, he’s in hit mode and swing mode. And right here, Max is is disciplined enough and smart enough to not throw him another strike. You don’t have to throw it close. No. I mean, anything off the plate, he’s going to try to go for it. Bottom of the order. This is low stress. Suarez, Kzone, Crawford, Revas tonight. Jerseys one-two pitch. Got him. And Mad Max is turning back the clock tonight. Just one run over four innings. His first start in three weeks. Storms off of the mound feeling himself. Sher in a staredown right here with John Schneider as he comes out with Rosena coming up. Sher one out away from qualifying for his first win in the postseason in six years. and he sends him back to the dugout. Wow. Uh he was just going to do a quick word with him anyways. Say, “Hey man, you got one more hitter.” That’s basically what it boils down to. I’ll look for Rosener to be real aggressive here on the first pitch. But it’s not close. Max sure doesn’t think he’s coming out there to say you get one more hitter. Here’s his one pitch at the knees. One ball, one strike. Sherzer to Rosarena. Stick him with a fast ball. Ahead one and two. Normally Rosarena is so aggressive and it’s fast balls that he punishes. home run last night, but still looks in between. Sherzer’s one-two pitch. Curve strikes him out. Max Scherzer defying father time. His 500th career start at the age of 41. Nobody giving him a chance. He says, “I’m staying in, Skip. You get out of here.” We were talking to John Schneider a few days ago about managing in the postseason and he told us that he’s lost about a month worth of sleep thinking about postseason failures over the first few years of his managerial career cuz he thought that he got too tied to a formula. He said, “I was gripping that wheel so tight that he told himself this year he was going to do a better job of trusting his eyes.” And look, when you break everything down coming into this game, all the numbers and what you think this would be, you would never have Max Sher going into the sixth inning, that requires watching what you’re seeing today. And that is Sherzer defying everything you figured would unfold. Schneider rolling with him into the six and he strikes out Rodriguez on another breaking pitch. All five of his Ks have come on spin. Oh, he’s in rhythm now and so when you see a pitcher in rhythm and he’s had the success knowing how to limit damage. He’s making it happen. is going to be the end of his night. Instead of letting him face Josh Naylor again, John Schneider’s out there to make a change. Max Scherzer five and 2/3. What a night. Sherzer take a bow. Game four, the American League Championship Series in position to win his first postseason game in six years.

Toronto Blue Jays Max Scherzer pitches 5 2/3 strong innings and strikes out five batters against the Mariners in Game 4 of the ALCS!

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