Did you catch any of the Washington Nationals vs Detroit Tigers game? Max Scherzer, pitching for Washington, struck out 20 Tigers. That ties the major league record for strike outs in a game. I brought up the video on the mlb app with one out in the 9th inning. I watched him get that 20th K and he still had one out left to break the record. James McCann and his stellar .121 batting average had already struck out three times, but he managed to get the ball in play and grounded out on a 5-4 fielder’s choice. Game over, record unbroken.
Still, all I could think as that 20th strikeout went into the books was this:
Suck it, Roger Clemens!
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