ESPN.com · Oct 31, 2023
Rangers' Max Scherzer exits in 4th inning with back tightness
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PHOENIX -- Max Scherzer threw a warm-up pitch in the middle of the fourth inning, then motioned for the Texas Rangers' training staff. Moments later, the three-time Cy Young Award winner was walking off the field, exiting Game 3 of the World Series with what the team described as back tightness.
Two innings earlier, in Monday's bottom of the second, Scherzer took a 93-mph one-hopper from Arizona Diamondbacks center fielder Alek Thomas off his back. The baseball was picked up by Rangers third baseman Josh Jung, who made a spectacular barehanded play to throw out Thomas and end the inning.