Blue Jays are trusting Mad Max for Game 3? Are they mad to do so?

Monday nights Game 3 starter Max Scherzer speaks to the media just prior to the opening of the World Series Workout Day ahead of Game 1 of the World Series at the Rogers Centre on October 23, 2025. Photo by Cole Burston / Getty Images

This is where hope and guessing, guile and trust come in for the Toronto Blue Jays. Smack in the middle of the World Series. Article content

Trusting Max Scherzer to start Game 3 at Dodger Stadium. Believing it’s the right thing to do. Believing he’s the right guy to start Monday night and to start again in Game 7, if there is a Game 7 at the Rogers Centre. Article content Article content

This has to be a nervous time for this incredible Blue Jays group. There is so much to believe in about Scherzer, so much to rely on, so much to hope for and yet