41-year-old Max Scherzer shouted at his manager for coming out to check on him, a breakdown

Everyone's favorite psycho was on the mound last night. Mad Max Scherzer. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. It is bottom of the fifth inning. There's one runner on. There's one out. He's got a lefty up that he's got to pitch to with a nice green tape job on the bat handle. And then he's got Randy, the greatest ever, a Rosarena on deck. That's the situation. First pitch, he goes fast ball to the lefty. Then he's going to work the change up. Gets it for a strike. Looking. That one falls below the zone. Now the 2-1 is a fast ball on the outside. 3-1. Another fast ball. It's hit pretty hard. He fell behind in the count. The catch is made. There's two outs. But manager probably saw that and was like, "Ah, maybe it's time. Let me go check on him." Sherzer gets surprised. Whoa, hold on. Not what I want to be seeing. My manager coming. Manager like, "Are you good?" He says, "Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, let's go." And then stares at him. Never breaks eye contact. Just stares at him with his different colored eyes and says, "Get off my mound. I've got work to do." Schneider says, "All right, cool. All good with me. Go get him." Randy Rosarena is up and before I show you this at bat, Schneider looking on thinking, "Okay, here we go. Is this okay?" Before I show you this at bat, I think it's important to know the previous at bats. He opened him up with a fast ball, got him swinging for a strike, and then with one strike went to the breaking ball and got a ground out. That was the first at bat. The next atbat, he opens him up fast ball again. Randy took it, then went slider again. Randy got pretty good wood on it, but it's caught in the outfield. He was getting first pitch with the fast ball, then second pitch with a slider to a lot of the righties in this game. So Randy has decided, I think I'm going to do what I did the second. I'm not going to swing at the fast ball. I'm sitting on the slider. First fast ball's yanked to the outside. Ball one. Then he takes a fast ball. So now he's got his first strike with the fast ball and Randy says, "Okay, I know that you're going to come with a slider. I'm going to sit on that." He freezes him with a fast ball. Sherzer changed the sequence. He got strike two with a fast ball right down the middle. And now you're in his pocket. He's in your brain. He's dancing cuz Ry's got to respect the fast ball now. He can't just take another one. He's like, "All right, I got to respect the fast ball. He's going to try and get me out the fast balls now." One, two pitch. There's the slider. Gets the big chase. He's fired up. Take me out of the game. I had Randy set up. Three innings in the work. Look at those two pitches. The overlay is nuts. They're the same pitch and then they're suddenly not the same pitch. But you got to get him off the scent to then sneak it by him. He walks off the mound. He's going to yell at his manager. Let's go. And I'm not done. I'm going back out. I'm the manager now. Pitching coach loves it. Had a baby. You know who else loved it? His teammates. Look at Springer and Jimenez. No. Godamn. They loved it. No, I'm not coming out. Even Rosenthal, the scouting report that Schneider, middle of the inning, walked past him and said, >> Schneider walked by and said, "I've been waiting for that all year." They send him back out for the bottom of the six. And then you say, "Let's go get us some more outs." You got four runs to work with. It'd be nice if we can hand this ball and use less of the bullpen. But it's Cal who's up first. I think that was a change up first pitch foul. And then he's going to go stay uh away from the fast ball. A slider up. That's out number one. He's feeling great. Let me start grooving. Another guy with stunning eyes in a different way. First pitch slider. He takes it. Changing up the sequences. Then fast ball for strike two. Then 02 after being up and in. Low and away. He's going to make him swing. That's a nice quick sequence. Julio's thinking, "Okay, that sucked." She's bored. Boring. Okay. All right. I like it. Look at these two pitches. They're in the same spot, but they're different pitches at different speeds. He was working up and in the first two, and then off of that, he says, "Now I'll get you a chase." You got to respect the fast ball, and that way I disrespect you with the slider. Let's go. It's a lefty up. First pitch, fast ball up. Fouls it back. Curveball off of that. Two pitches, two swings. Let's go. Let's finish this off. Rosin and Sweat. It's Rosin and Sweat. Slider in, fouled off. Then they're going to go fast ball away. The target is up and away. He yanks it. It's low. Then Slider again. That's inside. Now it's a two- two count. Change up below the zone. Let's go. Come on. Let's go. Oh, change up away. Makes a great pitch. Stays alive. And then fast ball to freeze him. No. Walks him. Not great. All right. Now he's coming out. See, when if you don't watch baseball a lot, as soon as the manager does this, it means it's done. It's official. you can't do anything about it. So, he signals early. I'm not even giving Sherzer the chance to plead his case. Sherzer sees that. He's like, "Oh, god damn it. All right, fine. I guess that's the case. Here you go. Here's the ball." But I was right about last inning. I sure was. The fans in Seattle from Toronto love it. The dugout loves it. He gets high fives. Great outing from Sherzer in a pretty big game. And then he's talking to himself in the dugout. I was trying to go up. Yeah, we saw it right here. He's trying to go up. Trying to go up and in. Tried to go up a couple times and couldn't get it, which sometimes a sign of fatigue, just missing spots. So, that's it. Mad Max. Got to love him. Look at that guy. This breakdown was brought to you by DraftKings. Thank you very much to DraftKings for sponsoring. And thank you very much to you guys for watching.