{"id":156039,"date":"2025-09-20T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156039\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:55:10","slug":"scherzer-pulled-in-1st-inning-after-allowing-7-earned-runs-to-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156039\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherzer pulled in 1st inning after allowing 7 earned runs to Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Scherzer&#8217;s audition for a postseason start did not go well against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays right-hander was removed in the first inning after allowing seven earned runs on seven hits, including two homers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Salvador Perez career home run No. 303!<\/p>\n<p>It comes off Max Scherzer, the same pitcher who Salvy hit his first homer off in 2011! \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BTHnG8i3Ou\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BTHnG8i3Ou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1969191179825651865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scherzer was replaced by Braydon Fisher after the Royals batted around and he gave up an extra-base hit to leadoff hitter Carter Jensen for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Cy Young winner had allowed seven or more earned runs in a game 12 times before Friday&#8217;s outing.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer&#8217;s audition for a postseason start did not go well against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-156039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}