{"id":743619,"date":"2026-06-17T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743619\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:16:08","slug":"blue-jays-place-max-scherzer-on-15-day-injured-list-with-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743619\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays place Max Scherzer on 15-day injured list with back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Scherzer has been placed on the 15-day injured list with back spasms, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlueJays\/status\/2067328957767118911?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will be Scherzer&#8217;s second stint on the IL. He was shelved from April 24 to June 10 due to right forearm tendinitis and left ankle inflammation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a time thing,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2067336052155486292?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scherzer said.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s a back spasm. It&#8217;s nothing more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old righty has a 10.23 ERA with 14 strikeouts and 11 walks over 22 innings this season. <\/p>\n<p>Fisher will serve as an opener in Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, a role he&#8217;s filled four times already this season. <\/p>\n<p>Rotation help could be on the way, as Shane Bieber threw a season-high 80 pitches in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-shane-bieber-struggles-in-fifth-rehab-start\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his fifth rehab start<\/a> earlier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer has been placed on the 15-day injured list with back spasms, the team announced Wednesday. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-743619","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\/743619","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=743619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}