Adnan Virk

But all that gets obscured by, as you mentioned, that wonderful tête-à-tête with John Schneider.

Now, when Schneider runs to the mound like that, as Buck Martinez and Dan Schulman said, that's him basically going to check on his pitcher just to say, are you good?

Well, Max clearly was furious and yelled, I'm good, let's go.

And John Schneider scurried back to the dugout, terrified to do anything else.

Max Scherzer, I don't think, Dan, it would have been hysterical if Brandi Rosarito had then taken him deep.

But thankfully, Scherzer gets out of it.

And then they said they can't take him out in the next inning.

Everyone's scared to take him out.

He starts the sixth inning, gets a couple outs.

This time, John Schneider quickly motions to his left arm, allows nothing to be said.

But 87 pitches, as you said, a willful performance at 41 years of age.

That was Max Scherzer's 500th start, regular season and postseason.

He's thrown over 50,000 pitches in baseball, and he gets his first win since the 2019 World Series.

Remarkable.

And as you said, it saved the season.

The Jays lose that.

They're down 3-1.

They're probably cooked.

Now it's a best-of-three.

Toronto's got a home field.