Max Scherzer tonight:

[Kingofalldems]

:large

And look who is a Nats fan:

https://twitter.com/BillNye/status/730577352095322112

And congratulations from Kerry Wood:

https://twitter.com/KerryWood/status/730576299647852545

[KamaAina]

1. Holy $#*!

For you casual baseball fans, the backwards K means "caught him looking". I learned that from Republican Stepdad, who eats, sleeps, breathes and bleeds Yankee pinstripes.

[Kingofalldems]

2. Saw the game and Max was insane.

119 pitches 96 strikes

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Some of Those Backward K's. . .

. . .came with the hitter not even moving the bat off his shoulder. Totally fooled!

[RockaFowler]

3. This is really cool

How about this stat??

There have been 23 PERFECT Games in MLB history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_perfect_games

There have been only 4 20 Strikeout Games (per 9 innings) in MLB History - and Scherzer is the 4th!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_single-game_strikeout_leaders


I heard Buster Olney talking about it this morning and I can't believe there have been so few games of 20 strikeouts by a single pitcher.

[El Supremo]

4. Let me put a little perspective on this. Nolan Ryan...

Had one 19 K game and one 18 K game in 9 innings. And he had three more 19 K games in extra innings. All of these were when he was with the California Angels.

Nobody is better than the Strikeout King.

[hughee99]

5. Should be 5 - 20 Strikeout games. Randy Johnson was robbed.

He threw 20 K's in the first 9 innings. He only pitched 9 innings, so he had the same number of opportunities as any of the other pitchers. The only difference between Johnson and the others was that his game was tied after 9 innings, which really has nothing to do with striking out 20 in a game.

[RockaFowler]

6. Still only 5 is AMAZING

And all of them within the last 30 years

[hughee99]

8. I completely agree. I just wanted to point out that Randy got robbed.

Oddly, if he had given up a HR in the 9th and lost the game, he'd be considered a 20 K pitcher. His performance is diminished because he didn't give up that HR.