It was vintage Max Scherzer on Wednesday in Buffalo, N.Y.<\/p>\n
The three-time Cy Young winner struck out seven batters in five hitless innings for the triple-A Bisons in a rehab start.<\/p>\n
Scherzer threw 56 pitches in five innings. The only baserunner he allowed reached on a fielding error by shortstop Josh Kasevich.<\/p>\n
It marked Scherzer’s first rehab outing since before the all-star break when he received three cortisone shots in his thumb and was forced to miss a scheduled outing.<\/p>\n
“This wasn’t a taxing outing,” Scherzer said to reporters after the game. “Arm felt great. Body felt great. Thumb felt great.”<\/p>\n
“Velo was holding in the third and fourth innings consistently \u2014 that’s what gave me the runway to go out for the fifth,” Scherzer added.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old was placed on the injured list in June for back spasms but has since been plagued with various injuries, delaying his return to the team.<\/p>\n
His last rehab outing was on July 8, also for the Bisons, when he allowed five runs and struck out five in four innings.<\/p>\n
He has not pitched in a game for the Blue Jays since June 10. He holds a 10.23 ERA in six starts this season for a Toronto team that has been struggling with a lack of starting-pitching depth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can’t make the team win,” Scherzer said. “I can only go out there and compete and do my job and put the team in a position to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was vintage Max Scherzer on Wednesday in Buffalo, N.Y. The three-time Cy Young winner struck out seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-819555","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\/819555","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=819555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}