Max Scherzer is one of six pitchers to throw two no-hitters in the same season. He’s one of four to ever strike out 20 batters in a nine-inning game. He’d flirted with a perfect game in his last start against the World Series-or-bust Cubs.
Color Wil Myers unimpressed.
The Padres’ All-Star hopeful strengthened his resume with a first-inning homer, a double and a stolen base off the Nationals’ $210 million hurler and swatted the game-tying double off Washington’s bullpen in the Padres’ 7-3 comeback win in front of 34,113 at Petco Park.
Really, the only thing Myers didn’t do was connect with Brandon Maurer on a no-look flip on a bounding ball that glanced off his glove and then off Brandon Maurer’s in the seventh inning to allow the Nationals to take a 2-1 lead.