Max Scherzer tried hard to diminish concerns about the right hamstring tweak which ended his outing after one inning on Wednesday night, telling reporters on a Zoom conference call after what ended up a 3-1 loss to the New York Mets, that he wouldn’t even call it an injury.
Scherzer tweaked the hamstring before his previous outing against the Toronto Blue Jays as he ran in the lead-up to the outing, and the same thing happened again before his outing in the finale with Washington’s NL East rivals. He tested it in game action for a long inning, but decided he couldn’t go any further than that safely.