NEW YORK — Max Scherzer’s official injury diagnosis is in.
The Mets’ pitcher will miss six to eight weeks with a “moderate to high grade” internal oblique strain, according to the team.
Something was definitely wrong when Scherzer, perhaps the most intense competitor of his generation, took himself out of the game on Wednesday night. In the middle of a sixth-inning showdown with Albert Pujols, Scherzer immediately made a signal to the dugout indicating that he was done. The initial language from the Mets was that he was experiencing “discomfort in his left side.”
