Maxwell M. Scherzer is an active Major League Baseball player who has pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks (2008-2009), Detroit Tigers (2010-2014) and Washington Nationals (2015-today). J.D.
According to Elias, the only other pitcher in major league history who accumulated both as many wins and as many strikeouts as Scherzer through his first 1,000 innings is Pedro Martinez (71 wins and 1,075 strikeouts)...Recorded his 20th win of the season on September 20 versus the Chicago White Sox...became the 24th player in Tigers history to record 20-or-more wins in a season, and the first since Justin Verlander won 24 games in 2011...Limited lefties to a .222 (100x450) average...righties hit .165 (52x316) against him...Finished 2-2 with a 2.90 ERA (31.0IP/10ER) and 39 strikeouts in five games during September...Posted a 12-1 record, a 3.55 ERA (104.0IP/41ER) and 111 strikeouts in 16 starts at home... led the American League in wins, while he was third with 111 strikeouts at home....compiled a 9-2 record, a 2.28 ERA (110.1IP/28ER) and 129 strikeouts in 16 games on the road this season...led the American League with 129 strikeouts on the road, while he finished second with a 2.28 ERA, and tied for second with nine wins...Compiled a 13-1 record and a 3.19 ERA (129.2IP/46ER) and 152 strikeouts in 19 starts prior to the All-Star break...finished 8-2 with a 2.44 ERA (84.2IP/23ER) and 88 strikeouts in 13 games after the break...Earned the win in Game One and Game Four of the 2012 American League Division Series versus Oakland...Established a new franchise record with 34 strikeouts during the 2013 postseason.Put together an historic season en route to earning his second Cy Young Award...In doing so, he became the first player in Nationals history (2005-present) to take home baseball's top pitching honor and just the second in franchise history (Nationals/Expos), joining only Pedro Martinez (1997)... Scherzer led the National league in a majority of the significant pitching categories (see info boxes that follow)...He went 20-7 with a 2.96 ERA in a career-high 34 starts...He tallied a career-high and Nationals record (2005-pres.) Kershaw: 9-11, 4.43 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, -0.05 Win Probability Added (per Baseball Reference) in 158 1/3 innings Scherzer: 7-5, 3.38 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 1.61 WPA in 112 innings The 18-game streak is the second-longest such streak in American League history, trailing only Pedro Martinez's 29-game streak to begin the 2000 season. Many thanks to him. Both could do so next season, which would be only the second time that two pitchers got their 3,000th strikeout in the same season. Still, if Kershaw stays healthy, he should get to 3,000 by 2022.Scherzer, who turns 35 in July, has led the National League in strikeouts in each of the past three seasons when he won two Cy Young awards and finished second last year. )...Was named to his fifth straight All Star Game...Started for the National League squad and tossed a dominant inning, coaxing a ground out from Jose Altuve, and striking out Aaron Judge and George Springer to strand Jose Ramirez...With 12.02 SO/9.0 IP for the season at 12.02, was just the fourth pitcher in MLB history to average as many as 12 SO/9.0 IP over a season of 200-plus innings: Randy Johnson did it six times (1995, 1997-2001), Pedro Martinez (1999) and Chris Sale (2017)...Scherzer (2nd, 2.51), along with Stephen Strasburg (3rd, 2.52) and Gio Gonzalez (5th, 2.96), helped the Nationals become the first team with three starting pitchers ranking in the top five in the National League in ERA in 21 years (since the 1996 Atlanta Braves), according to the Elias Sports Bureau ...Struck out a season-high 14 batters on June 6 at Los Angeles Dodgers (7.0 IP, 3 H, R, 2 BB, 14 SO)...Tossed 9.0 dominant innings on May 31 at SFG (9.0 IP, 5 H, ER, 11 SO)...Clubbed his first career home run on Aug. 1 at MIA (O'Grady)...Tossed 6.1 strong innings in Game 3 of the NLDS...Struck out seven batters, walked three while allowing just one hit and one run along the way...Did not earn the win as the Cubs pulled away, 2-1...Endured his first disabled list stint since 2009 when he was placed on the 10-day DL with left neck inflammation from Aug. 19-28.Maxwell M.
Martinez, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer all used to play for the 2014 Detroit Tigers.
284 strikeouts...His season was highlighted by yet another historic performance, striking out 20 Detroit Tigers on May 11 to become just the fourth pitcher in MLB history to strike out 20 batters in a nine-inning game (see info box below)...Was named an All-Star for the fourth consecutive season...He was 10-3 with a 3.03 ERA in the season's first half, won at least 10 games before the All-Star break for the fourth consecutive season...Via the Elias Sports Bureau, over the last 20 years, only two other pitchers reached double digits in wins prior to the break in each of four consecutive seasons: Greg Maddux (1997-2001) and Roy Halladay (2005-11)...The NL's only 20-game winner capped his 2016 on an eight-game winning streak...Washington was 10-0 in those 10 starts (8-0, 3.34 ERA)...From June 1 through the end of the season, he went 15-3 with a 2.44 ERA...Struck out 194 batters, walked 34 and posted a 0.91 WHIP in this 23-game span (0.91 WHIP).Ranked in the National League in strikeouts per 9.0 IP (1st, 12.69), strikeout-to-walk ratio (1st, 7.36), strikeouts (3rd, 243), opp.