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#MizzouMade Max Scherzer Earns Second MLB All-Star Game Start

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Former Mizzou Baseball standout Max Scherzer has been picked to start tomorrow night's Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the National League, announced Monday. Scherzer, who is the ace of the NL East-leading Washington Nationals, is making his second start in an All-Star Game and first since 2013 when he won the American League Cy Young Award with the Detroit Tigers. Scherzer is just the fifth MLB pitcher to start an All-Star Game for both the NL and AL. He joins Vida Blue, Roger Clemens, Roy Halladay and Randy Johnson.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Former Mizzou Baseball standout Max Scherzer has been picked to start tomorrow night's Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the National League, announced Monday. Scherzer, who is the ace of the NL East-leading Washington Nationals, is making his second start in an All-Star Game and first since 2013 when he won the American League Cy Young Award with the Detroit Tigers. Scherzer is just the fifth MLB pitcher to start an All-Star Game for both the NL and AL. He joins Vida Blue, Roger Clemens, Roy Halladay and Randy Johnson.

The 2016 National League Cy Young winner, Scherzer has been the league's most dominant pitcher in the first half of 2017. He is 10-5 with a 2.10 ERA with 173 strikeouts in only 128.1 innings, averaging 12.13 strikeouts per nine innings, the seventh-best mark in the bigs. Scherzer leads the NL in strikeouts, ERA, WHIP (0.78) and complete games (two) while ranking second in innings and third in wins.

The 2017 MLB All-Star Game will be played in Miami, Fla., on Tuesday (July 11) live on Fox beginning at 7 p.m. (CT).

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