The meeting was brief, tense and essentially spoke volumes of what Max Scherzer is all about.
In the seventh inning of a 2-2 game with two outs and a man on second base, Nationals manager Matt Williams made a visit to the mound — not so much to remove his ace, but more so to see if he felt good enough to face the Marlins’ best hitter, Dee Gordon, to get the final out of the inning.
It didn’t take long before the skipper got his answer.
“I asked him ‘Do you want him?’ and he said, ‘Yeah’, among other things,” said a grinning Williams.