{"id":778958,"date":"2026-07-04T03:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:11:22","slug":"scherzer-pitches-three-innings-for-high-a-vancouver-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778958\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherzer pitches three innings for high-A Vancouver Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 <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>\u2019s rehab journey touched down in Vancouver on Friday, where he pitched three innings for the high-A Vancouver Canadians en route to a 5-3 win over the Eugene Emeralds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scherzer, who hasn\u2019t pitched for the Blue Jays since a three-plus inning effort on June 10, threw 49 pitches at Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium \u2014 33 for strikes \u2014 and allowed three hits, two walks, two earned runs and struck out three hitters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Emeralds were leading 2-1 when Scherzer was replaced by Landen Maroudis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scherzer is expected to join the Blue Jays in Seattle, where they open a nine-game road trip on Friday night with stops in Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In his second season in Toronto, Scherzer is 1-4 with a 10.23 ERA across six starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto manager John Schneider told reporters that the 41-year-old Scherzer would likely need a couple rehab starts before he\u2019ll be ready to pitch in the majors again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Max Scherzer\u2019s rehab journey touched down in Vancouver on Friday, where he pitched three innings for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,82,55],"class_list":["post-778958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778958","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=778958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}