Davey Martinez started his pregame press conference tonight with a stunning, and truly unexpected announcement:
Max Scherzer has a right trap and neck injury that will keep him from starting Game 5 of the World Series tonight.
For a competitor like Scherzer to have to bow out of a game this big, Martinez said, it had to be a serious issue.
“For Max to miss a game,” the manager assured reporters, “especially a significant game like this he’s got to be really hurt, so hopefully ... within the next 24 hours, as he starts getting better, we start seeing signs of him getting better and then we’ll go from there.