Max Scherzer exited with left side fatigue after five sharp innings and 67 pitches Saturday night, and the NL East-leading Mets lost to the Washington Nationals.
"Nothing tightened up — I just had general fatigue overall on my left side," Scherzer said."That's where you can run into injury, is when you're pitching through fatigue. So that was the reason to come out."
"This was a precautionary move given the history of the oblique here," Scherzer said."Was there a scenario where I could go out there and pitch the sixth and be OK? Yeah. That could have happened. But if I went out there in the sixth and I got hurt, there's no way I could come in here and look the guys in the face and say I made the right decision."
"Just couldn't take any risk, especially where the calendar's at," Scherzer said."There's not a lot of time to re-ramp back up. So I think that played just as much of an important factor in coming out after five." "He's very frank about what he was feeling and we reacted to what a really good pitcher that knows himself said," Mets manager Buck Showalter said."Been able to have that communication all year and it's worked out pretty well. Tonight, I think, was a good example of that."Lane Thomas hit a tiebreaking solo homer with one out in the eighth off Adam Ottavino for the last-place Nationals.
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