MIAMI — Max Scherzer threatens baseball history so regularly that sometimes the game seems to want to strike back. Wednesday afternoon he carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning, but left with a 2-1 loss to the Miami Marlins.
Instead of flying home 16 games over .500, 11-9 in a stretch of 20 games in 20 days, the Washington Nationals will fly back 14 games over and 10-10, a tiny statistical difference in the grand scheme but a massive emotional difference on Wednesday. Scherzer’s record dropped to 8-5. Frankly, he deserved better.
The no-hitter ended with one out in the eighth, when Marlins catcher A.