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Chapter 1

Greatest Moments Max Scherzer’s Major League Baseball Career Max Scherzer, or Mad Max as he is known around the league, is one of the best pitchers in all of Major League Baseball (MLB). He began his career, after three years pitching for the Tigers of the University of Missouri at Columbia, as a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2008. After a two-year stint in Arizona, Scherzer was traded to Detroit, Michigan, where he teamed up with right-handed pitching ace Justin Verlander (now of the Houston Astros). He spent five seasons in Detroit, appearing in the 2012 World Series against San Francisco. Scherzer’s first appearance came in a relief effort on April 29, 2008, against the Houston Astros. He pitched four and a third innings and struck out seven batters. The effort left Scherzer one strikeout short of the league’s record for strikeouts by a reliever making his debut . He won the first of two Cy Young Awards as a member of the Tigers in 2013. During his time in Detroit, Scherzer

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