Nate Pearson and Max Scherzer had themselves an old-fashioned pitchers’ duel tonight in Nationals Park, where the Washington Nationals were the “away” team for the third of their four games with the Toronto Blue Jays in the nation’s capital this week.
Pearson, in his MLB debut, tossed five scoreless on 75 pitches, striking out five and allowing just two hits and two walks, with a high-90s fastball and biting slider that generated 8 of 14 swinging strikes and five of 13 called strikes on the night in an impressive outing for the 23-year-old, 2017 1st Round pick.