When Max Scherzer and Yu Darvish get together you know there are going to be some strikeouts. Darvish was the fastest pitcher in MLB history to reach 1,500 whiffs. Scherzer’s K total climbed into 1st ballot Hall of Fame territory a while ago. On Friday night, we did indeed see punchouts. Darvish was just a little bit better. Yu spun…
When Max Scherzer and Yu Darvish get together you know there are going to be some strikeouts. Darvish was the fastest pitcher in MLB history to reach 1,500 whiffs. Scherzer's K total climbed into 1st ballot Hall of Fame territory a while ago.Yu spun 7.0 innings of 1-run ball to top Mad Max in a 4-1 Padres win at Citi Field in New York to open both teams' first series after the All-Star break. Darvish struck out nine and allowed just four hits in one of his better outings of the year.
But, he made one bad mistake and Eric Hosmer made it hurt. Hosmer, who has played so poorly the last two years that Padres fans are begging for the team to get rid of him, earned a temporary reprieve when he launched a 2-run, opposite field homer off Scherzer to put San Diego on top 2-0. Luke Voit, who had a pair of line drive singles, scored on the bomb.
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