{"id":521238,"date":"2026-03-07T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:49:09","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-max-scherzer-goes-four-hitless-innings-in-first-start-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521238\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 Max Scherzer goes four hitless innings in first start of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/max-scherzer\/326473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/max-scherzer\/326473\" target=\"_blank\">Max Scherzer<\/a> tossed an impressive four scoreless innings in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> spring training debut against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> in Clearwater, Fla., Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scherzer did not allow a hit and walked just one batter with one strikeout while throwing 40 pitches in the outing, 29 of them strikes.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Scherzer&#8217;s 2026 spring debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BlueJays<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>4 IP \u2022 0 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K<\/p>\n<p>Fastball averaged 94.0 mph and touched 95.8. Everything about it was encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeganMatheson\/status\/2030359290079281460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AS MLB.com\u2019s Keegan Matheson notes, Scherzer\u2019s fastball averaged 94.0 miles per hour and touched as high as 95.8. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jays and Scherzer reached a one-year agreement last month for him to return to Toronto for his 19th MLB season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-scherzer-says-he-will-be-ready-for-opening-day\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-scherzer-says-he-will-be-ready-for-opening-day\/\">Scherzer told reporters this past week<\/a> he feels great and anticipates being ready to start the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported Saturday, Scherzer\u2019s deal includes a full no-trade clause and is for $3 million with as much as $10 million in additional incentives based on innings pitched benchmarks that start at 65 innings and increase in 10-inning increments up to 155 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Max Scherzer got a full no-trade clause along with $3M guaranteed plus $10M  in incentives, $1M at each level starting at 65 IP in 10-inning increments to 155 IP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/jays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#jays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2030360872418226305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scherzer made 17 starts during the regular season last year for the Jays, turning in a 5.19 ERA with 82 strikeouts in 85.0 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also made three additional postseason appearances with two of them coming in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The future Hall-of-Famer is a three-time Cy Young Award winner, an eight-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer tossed an impressive four scoreless innings in his Toronto Blue Jays spring training debut against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,84941,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-521238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-max-scherzer-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-326473","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521238","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=521238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}