Arm fatigue helps shorten Max Scherzer's sixth start on Saturday. Whether he'll be available for his next start in the rotation seems tenuous.
during his Wednesday bullpen session and hoped he'd be able to pitch through it. But when his pitch count ballooned to 53, including a four-run second, he agreed with pitching coach Mie Maddux and manager Bruce Bochy that he was done for the night.
"I've had a lot of different over the years where you're not 100% out there and you can go out there and find a way to navigate and you can pitch and you can get through lineups," Scherzer said. "I've done it many times, and I was just kind of hoping that if I got deeper into the ballgame arm would respond and I'd be able to make it through, but it just wasn't. It was only going to get worse; it wasn't going to loosen up.
"I thought I was going to be good, that this was going to recover in time," he said. "My concern from the start was going to be more about the pitch count. How deep could I go into the game?""So, at that point, I knew I needed to come out of the ballgame. Otherwise, I was going to be risking further injury. Good news is that I didn't have any zings; I didn't strain anything.
"This is just this is part of the ramp up of trying to get into midseason form as fast as I can," he said. "My arm just got a little fatigued and it should go away with just a little time. It's not a strain. It just needs a little rest."Stefan Stevenson worked as a journalist and editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for 25 years, covering sports, concerts, and general news.
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