JUPITER, Fla. (KMOX) - Going up against and defeating a three-time Cy Young award winner sounds about as good as it could get for a 23-year-old pitcher coming off his rookie MLB season. But St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty wanted a little bit more from his spring training matchup with Max Scherzer and the Washington Nationals, Monday.
Flaherty was hoping he could take a few hacks against Scherzer himself.
"I asked for it the other day because I knew that he was throwing and knew he was going to be hitting," Flaherty told KMOX's Tom Ackerman after Monday's game. "I asked for it, but I forgot to beg and plead for it. But you know I wanted to get in there today, but I don't think I tried hard enough."