Max Scherzer is a generational talent. He is, without question, one of the best pitchers of the last decade, and has just about every conceivable award and accolade to show for it. He’s also putting on a weekly spectacle to show voters why he should receive his third career Cy Young award this season.
On Sunday, he added another milestone to his list of achievements by collecting his 3,000th career strikeout against the Padres. Scherzer is only the 19th pitcher in major league history to get to the 3K mark. Of course, the victim of 3,000, Eric Hosmer, would later get his revenge by ending Max’s bid for a perfect game, getting the only Padres hit of the day.