Veteran righty Max Scherzer has earned his reputation as something of an old-school pitcher. This is true in the baseball sense: Scherzer has led the league in innings pitched two separate times and continues to take pride in working deep into games in the era of third-time-through-the-order penalties and five-and-dive.

Two innings. Two challenges. Two triumphs for Robot Kind. Zero triumphs for Mad Max. After his introduction to ABS, Scherzer had thoughts.