Federal Baseball · Mar 28, 2021
Washington Nationals’ Max Scherzer ready for sixth Opening Day assignment...
Max Scherzer made his final preseason start, before he takes the mound next Thursday in front of 5,000 fans in Nationals Park, pitching in a B-game in West Palm Beach, FL, facing Houston Astros’ minor leaguers. Scherzer, of course didn’t approach it like a B-game with minor leaguers. It didn’t matter that there were no fans in the stands on Saturday.
“You’ve got to mentally bring it in a B-game. A ‘B-game’ becomes an A-game in your mind, so that’s how you have to approach it,” the three-time Cy Young award winner said.
His final tune-up before his sixth Opening Day start in seven seasons in D.C., Scherzer said, was a good one.