Max Scherzer is going to the injured list after his first start of the 2025 Major League Baseball season. The Toronto Blue Jays placed the veteran right-hander on the 15-day IL with right thumb inflammation on Sunday.
Facing the Baltimore Orioles in his season-opening start, Scherzer pitched three innings, allowing two runs on three hits (two of them home runs) with one strikeout in Toronto's 9-5 defeat. He threw 45 pitches altogether, 28 of them for strikes.