{"id":667365,"date":"2026-04-07T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:40:12","slug":"blue-jays-rhp-max-scherzer-leaves-start-against-dodgers-after-second-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667365\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays RHP Max Scherzer Leaves Start Against Dodgers After Second Inning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue Jays<\/a> right-hander and three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer<\/a> left Monday\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> after two innings, another potential blow to Toronto\u2019s injury-hit starting rotation.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old Scherzer, who re-signed with Toronto in February, allowed two runs and two hits.<\/p>\n

Teoscar Hernandez<\/a> homered in the first, driving in Kyle Tucker<\/a>\u2019s walk.<\/p>\n

Scherzer\u2019s fastball averaged 93.4 mph in a March 31 start against Colorado. That dropped to 92.1 in Monday\u2019s two innings against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Left-hander Josh Fleming<\/a>, who was called up from Triple-A Buffalo before the game, took over in the third.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays have four starters on the injured list, including right-hander Cody Ponce. Last Monday, Ponce left his first big league appearance since 2021 in the third inning after injuring his knee while pursuing an infield grounder.<\/p>\n

Right-handers Trey Yesavage<\/a> (shoulder), Jose Berrios<\/a> (elbow) and Shane Bieber<\/a> (elbow) are all working their way back from injuries and have yet to pitch this season.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, the Blue Jays signed 36-year-old left-hander Patrick Corbin<\/a> to a one-year contract. Corbin started for Single-A Dunedin on Saturday, allowing one run in five innings.<\/p>\n

Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jays right-hander and three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer left Monday\u2019s game against the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,387,59036,29,57,19,381,4,444,1271,1528,70,5196],"class_list":{"0":"post-667365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jose-berrios","10":"tag-josh-fleming","11":"tag-kyle-tucker","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-major-league-baseball","14":"tag-max-scherzer","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-patrick-corbin","17":"tag-shane-bieber","18":"tag-teoscar-hernandez","19":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","20":"tag-trey-yesavage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116360644116815588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}