SAN FRANCISCO — One (shortened) season and a half removed from winning a storybook World Series with the Washington Nationals, Max Scherzer uprooted his family and approved a midseason trade to Los Angeles because he thought it would give him the best possible chance to win a championship. Another one.
Soaked in champagne — as his two young daughters toddled, one of them barefoot, around the bases — Scherzer offered a couple of pronouncements about what he values over the course of his postgame comments Thursday night:
“I like to party.