PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Max Scherzer doesn’t quite know all of the limits of the pitch clock, but he’s eager to push all of them until he figures them out.
Scherzer worked quickly and efficiently through the first two innings of his Grapefruit League start against the Washington Nationals on Friday at Clover Park. He ran into trouble in the third inning, but trouble was exactly what he was looking for.
“If you just throw three perfect innings, that’s really not good in spring training,” Scherzer said after departing the game. “You want to be in these situations, you want to have hits and runners on base and be pressing what you can and can’t do with runners on base.”
