Things went all pear-shaped for Max Scherzer in the fourth inning last night in San Diego, CA’s Petco Park, in what ended up being a seven-pitch frame for the Padres, who rallied from an 8-0 deficit and won it on a walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth.
“[I] ran into a buzz saw there,” Scherzer said of what ended up a 45-pitch frame. “That’s the funny thing about this game, you can think that you have something working and you have flow and everything and it shows you how quickly that can turn.
“This game can snap in a heartbeat like that.