Scherzer not sharp as Rangers drop Game 3 to Astros 8-5

The Texas Rangers scored five runs while the Houston Astros scored eight runs.

Well, it seemed unlikely that the Rangers would just straight up sweep through the entire month of October. Finally, after starting their postseason run with seven consecutive wins, they are staring at some adversity.

Tonight’s starter Max Scherzer couldn’t make any assurances as to what his performance would be like after missing over a month of action. As it turns out, it, uh... wasn’t great. Scherzer’s stuff seemed fine, as he hit 95 MPH with his fastball and he sometimes had a decent looking breaker, but the command wasn’t there as one might expect after such a layoff without in-game rehab action to shake off…