"My offspeed stuff is right where it needs to be," Scherzer said. "Slider, changeup, curveball, they are all there. I'm not sitting here kicking chairs around because I'm frustrated how I pitched. My stuff is there. There are a couple of mistakes within my outing that I have to shore up.
"I have to keep that focus at 100 percent. I'm not saying I'm losing focus. I have to keep it dialed in, [keep that] hungry feeling going. You make little mistakes at this level, they make you pay."
Since the All-Star break, Scherzer has struggled, going 1-4 with a 5.