Blue Jays' Max Scherzer gets start in World Series Game 7 for possible final game of illustrious career

Yoshinobu Yamamoto spoke with Tom Verducci about the Los Angeles Dodgers' Game 6 win over the Toronto Blue Jays and gave his thoughts on the upcoming Game 7.

The first pitch of the biggest game in the history of the Toronto Blue Jays, live on FOX, will be thrown by future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer.

The 41-year-old signed a one-year deal with the Jays ahead of the season for what may or may not have been supposed to be a farewell tour. Suddenly, it has become much more than that.

What might have started as one final season to take it all in has turned into one of the biggest starts of Scherzer's career.

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer throws during the second inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

Scherzer has nothing left to accomplish. He's a three-time Cy Young Award winner with two World Series titles, a lifetime 3.22 ERA and 3,489 strikeouts. He will undoubtedly go into Cooperstown in his first year on the ballot.

But none of that will be a thought for Scherzer, or any Blue Jays fan, at 8:08 p.m. ET.

This will be Scherzer's 28th postseason start — his sixth in winner-take-all, sixth in the Fall Classic and second in Game 7 of a World Series (also 2019 with the winning Washington Nationals). 

Scherzer will soon become the fourth pitcher in MLB history, along with Bob Gibson (1964, ‘67, ’68), Lew Burdette and Don Larsen (both 1957 and ‘58), to start multiple winner-take-all Fall Classic Game 7s.

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer reacts to a strikeout against the Seattle Mariners during the fifth inning in Game 4 of baseball's American League Championship Series in Seattle,