NEW YORK — Mets ace Max Scherzer realized something was off. So rather than push through, he smartly pulled himself out.
Scherzer exited with left side fatigue after five sharp innings and 67 pitches Saturday night and NL East-leading New York lost to the Washington Nationals 7-1.
Scherzer is confident he'll make his next start as scheduled.
"Nothing tightened up — I just had general fatigue overall on my left side," Scherzer said. "That's where you can run into injury, is when you're pitching through fatigue. So that was the reason to come out.