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The first pitch of the biggest game in Toronto Blue Jays history, live on FOX, will be thrown by future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer.
The 41-year-old signed a one-year deal with the Blue Jays before the season for what may or may not have been a farewell tour. Suddenly, it has become much more than that.
What might have started as a final season of taking it all in has turned into one of the biggest starts to Scherzer’s career.
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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer pitches during the second inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium. (Kirby Lee/Image Images)
Scherzer has nothing left to achieve. He is a three-time Cy Young Award winner with two World Series titles, a career 3.22 ERA and 3,489 strikeouts. He will certainly go to Cooperstown in his first year on the ballot.
But Scherzer, or any Blue Jays fan, won’t be thinking about any of that at 8:08 p.m. ET.
This will be Scherzer’s 28th postseason start: the sixth in the winner-take-all, the sixth in the Fall Classic and the second in Game 7 of a World Series (also in 2019 with the winning Washington Nationals).
Scherzer will soon become the fourth pitcher in MLB history, joining Bob Gibson (1964, ’67, ’68), Lew Burdette and Don Larsen (both 1957 and ’58), to start multiple winner-take-all Game 7s of the Fall Classic.
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer reacts to a strikeout against the Seattle Mariners during the fifth inning of Game 4 of baseball’s American League Championship Series in Seattle, Washington, on Oct. 16, 2025. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
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It’s safe to say that Saturday’s outing will only be compared to that against the Houston Astros six years ago. That game, he gave the Nationals five two-run innings, relying on late home runs from Anthony Rendon, Howie Kendrick and Juan Soto, and Patrick Corbin and Daniel Hudson out of the bullpen to preserve the victory.
That outing was in a hostile environment in Houston. On Saturday, he will pitch in front of a Blue Jays home crowd eager for their first title since 1993.
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer looks at his dugout during the sixth inning of Game 4 of baseball’s American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners in Seattle, Washington, on Oct. 16, 2025. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)
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Scherzer has not yet announced his intentions for the future. But if Saturday goes the way a Hollywood screenwriter would like (ironically, he’ll face his former Los Angeles Dodgers), no one could blame him for going into the sunset on such a high note.
In all likelihood, Scherzer’s Hall of Fame plaque will show him wearing a Nationals cap, since that’s where he’s spent most of his 18-year career. But if everything goes as he hopes, he will be a Toronto hero forever, even with a short tenure.
