{"id":3253,"date":"2013-06-23T00:31:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T04:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2013-06-23T00:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T04:31:55","slug":"max-scherzer-becomes-first-11-0-pitcher-since-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/23\/max-scherzer-becomes-first-11-0-pitcher-since-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer becomes first 11-0 pitcher since 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3254\" alt=\"maxscherzer\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/maxscherzer.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/maxscherzer.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/maxscherzer-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/maxscherzer-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Detroit Tigers pitcher has begun the season 11-0 and it is not Justin Verlander.<\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer improved to 11-0 after the Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 10-3 on Saturday night. Victory Martinez put the Tigers ahead early with a grand slam in the first inning while Scherzer survived a shaky first inning himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to start a season 11-0. It just means we&#8217;re playing great team baseball and I&#8217;m going out there and doing my job,&#8221; Scherzer said. &#8220;I&#8217;m credited a ton of run support. That&#8217;s when you&#8217;ve got to give all the credit to your teammates. Every time I feel like I go deep into a game, they&#8217;re going to pick me up. They have the whole entire season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer became the first pitcher to start 11-0 since Roger Clemens in 1997, according to STATS. Clemens is also the last pitcher to start 12-0, 13-0 and 14-0 which took place during his 1986 MVP season.<\/p>\n<p>The next scheduled start for Scherzer figures to fall on Friday at Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Detroit Tigers pitcher has begun the season 11-0 and it is not Justin Verlander. Max Scherzer improved to 11-0 after the Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox 10-3 on Saturday night. Victory Martinez put the Tigers ahead early with a grand slam in the first inning while Scherzer survived a shaky first inning himself. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,375],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-max-scherzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}