10:12AM: Scherzer has been officially placed on the IL, retroactive to September 4.
8:58AM: The Mets are placing ace Max Scherzer on the 15-day injured list, manager Buck Showalter announced to reporters Wednesday morning (Twitter link via Newsday’s Tim Healey). The team is hopeful that he’ll return after a minimum stint on the shelf. Scherzer departed his most recent start due to “fatigue” in the same left oblique muscle he strained earlier in the season — an injury that kept him sidelined for nearly two months.
Scherzer, 38, has been sensational for the Mets when healthy enough to take the mound. The three-time Cy Young winner has logged a 2.26 ERA while striking out 30.6% of his opponents against just a 4.6% walk rate. He’s averaged 6 1/3 innings per outing, even with a pair of early exits due to an increasingly problematic left oblique. Scherzer had been slated to start this Friday in Miami.
The injury to Scherzer comes in conjunction with a sequence of brutal losses to the last-place Pirates and Nationals. The Mets have dropped three in row while watching the Braves cruise to six straight victories, culminating in the evaporation of what was once a whopping 10.5-game lead in the NL East for the Mets; the two teams are currently tied with identical 85-51 records.
Even with Scherzer sidelined, the Mets have a strong top four in the rotation, with Jacob deGrom, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Bassitt and Taijuan Walker all active. Walker has struggled of late, with a 6.25 ERA since the All-Star break, although the majority of the damage against him came in one appearance: an eight-run meltdown against Atlanta. Both David Peterson and Trevor Williams are stretched out enough to make starts in place of Scherzer. Peterson started for the Mets both on Aug. 27 and Sept. 2, working a combined 11 1/3 innings, so he’d certainly be an option to step in for Scherzer on Friday against the Marlins.
Guess they weren’t Scher what to do
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My username is quite serious therefore yours is quite appropriate.
Please use larger font I can’t read small print
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? I compliment you and then you attack me? Please point out in my post where I mentioned anything about your username.
as opposed to that awesomely funny woke stuff
offended on cue. who knew?
Surprise, surprise. What in the world is “left-side fatigue” and why should people shrug it off? As I said before, if there is fatigue, that means that side is not healthy. Right move to put him on IL.
Max said he was fine
They also said he will not miss a start. Oblique’s and hamstrings don’t just miraculously heal without proper recovery – hence why he is currently feeling “fatigue” from the previous injury. When he returns, he will have the injury on the back of his mind as the season goes along. The guy is a gamer so he will do what it takes to help the Mets win, but this circumstance should not be taken lightly.
With that being said, this is exactly what the Mets were afraid of. I know they are not worried about the Braves. However, they are frustrated they have to play these remaining games hard because the Braves are on their tails. I guess you can say Max will get his “rest now”, but the Mets want to rest deGrom too. The Mets season hinges on their top 2 guys in the rotation. The rest of the team is expandable.
*expendable
That whole gamer thing and doing whatever for the Mets can be debunked by him sitting out the elimination game when he was with the Dodgers due to a “tired arm”.
“because the Braves are on their tails.”
Not anymore, Braves are currently on their left 😀
vogelbach has been expanding since birth
@kmk, Apparently he’s not.
Sorry Mets fans. Hope you like WC1.
Let’s not get carried away. I mean, I was saying they will lose grip of the division at some point because they are overachieving, but there are still a bunch of games left. The Braves will not win every remaining game either.
With that being said, I would like to thank your little brothers for taking game 1 because you big clumsy brothers gave the Mets too many gifted wins.
remaining schedule heavily favors the mets
Strength of schedule is a fallacy. The team who plays better down the stretch will win the division no matter who they face. Don’t be that person who buys an Apple Watch 8 because it now has BP monitoring – checking BP via your wrist is not accurate.
With that being said, I have a bold prediction to make for what it is worth. Predictability says the loser of the East will go further in the postseason.
Strength of schedule a fallacy…. It is a factor. You can’t just outright dismiss that.
mets have 18 games until their showdown with the braves:
3 at miami
3 cubs
4 pirates
3 at milwaukee
3 at oakland
2 miami
they finish with 3 at home against the nationals
if they don’t win the division they’ll have no one to blame but themselves
@dasit
Did you copy and paste your post from 2007…and 2008?
And strength of team favors ATL.
Mets will be riding 2 glass arms into the playoffs lol. Typical Mets. Braves taking the division. Just an overall better team and organization.
This narrative doesn’t work. The Braves can be a better team and organization. I won’t argue that, but this isn’t typical Mets. The Mets did absolutely nothing wrong this year. In fact, they dominated the division, beating the Braves, Marlins, Nats and especially Phillies. Mets are still on pace for close to 100 wins. This isn’t the Mets collapsing. The Braves are just very very good as well. Two amazing teams in the same division. There’s no LOLMets here.
How dare you be so rational!
I don’t know, on the one hand I want to agree
On the other hand they had a 3 game lead with a schedule left consisting mainly of Miami, Nats, Pirates, and A’s…. Yet we’re like 5 games into this stretch and they’ve already lost their 3 game lead lol
If the mets were in any other division outside of dodgers and astros they are easily in first place. They happen to play in the division with one of the top 4 teams in baseball and world series Champs. It’s an 85-51 braves team!! Mets did nothing wrong all year outside of lose the last 3 to rubbish teams. Mets haven’t choked! Braves are just that good!
There’s still a month left in the season. The Mets (and Yankees) are going to the playoffs. It’s too early to say those teams have “collapsed” or make any other determination about their seasons.
The playoffs are all about pitching, defense, and manufacturing runs. That’s what teams have to do to win the toss-up games that decide a series. With deGrom and Max starting and Diaz out of the bullpen to start, the Mets are hardly toast at this point.
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If the mets were in any other division outside of dodgers and astros they are easily in first place.
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They would be behind the NYY as well. The NYMs are 21-9 against the Nats and Marlins. The ALE doesn’t have any weak teams.
Uhh lol AL East has something to say.
LOLMets. They were up by 10.5….now they aren’t.
Nothing gets by you
Which is more of a testament to the Braves. It’s not like the Mets lost to Atlanta 30 times, they did what they needed to do. The Braves are just good.
The Braves are the best run team in the division the last few years, and realistically, for the most of nearly that last 30 years.
The sucky part for my Marlins is that, even if MLB does the expected form of regional realignment that will come with the next expansion, the Marlins will still have to deal with the Braves…and may have the Rays added to that within the same division. Yikes! Where’s our MLB equivalent of Pat Riley!?!?
@VonPurpleHayes Interesting, though, that signing Scherzer—which was the class dolt buying a Ferrari to purchase some sort of legitimacy with the girl—quite reasonably came back to bite them (Cohen) in the arse.
When you sign a great old pitcher who had trouble staying the rotation last season, what do you expect, particularly when you choose to sign him for the same AAV as was paid to the likes of Rodon and Robbie Ray, combined?
Cohen made a desperation move in signing Scherzer, and the Mets are now paying for it. This was always likely to be one of the main story lines of the Mets’ 2022 season, especially when they knew early on deGrom would be likely to miss at least half the year.
Big Money contract… wasted
just like Verlander 6 innings for 66 million.
There’s no question Scherzer has thrown a lot of quality pitches in the last 10 years and he’s been reasonably healthy throughout his career but it has taken its toll.
Dude is nearly 40. Mets gambled on a WS caliber season and to be honest, his regular season doesn’t matter. If he’s healthy for the playoffs, Mets get what they want. No one expects him to be good for the next 2 seasons. Clock is ticking.
If you think Scherzer himself doesn’t expect to be good for the next 2 seasons I think you’re wrong. I get your general idea – it’s fine if Scherzer misses a lot of the regular season. But I think the Mets gambled on him being a WS caliber rotation piece. Not just for 2022 but for 3 postseasons.
Yea. That’s a dumb gamble IMO. I don’t see a guy who pitches like that staying healthy in his latter years.
VonPurpleHayes;
I don’t know about Max, but earlier this year Dave Dombrowski was BS’ing with some reporters before a game and they asked him about Verlander. Dombrowski said when he’d seen him pitch in the low minors he told people he worked with that Verlander looked like a young Nolan Ryan. Nolan pitched effectively through age 45, deteriorated in his age 46 season and retired.
I’m with Armaments216 on this – the Mets are going to the playoffs. They need deGrom and Schurzer healthy for them. If it costs them the NLE title to sit them for a bit in September, I’m sure they’re fine with that.
That’s a dumb strategy to give away the NL East title and WC round bye. No way that’s what they’re thinking. Scherzer is too hurt to pitch plain and simple. They aren’t taking a cautious approach and risking the division in the process. There’s way too much at stake there.
If they’re forced to play the WC let’s say you have deGrom and Scherzer pitch games 1 & 2, you win both and move on. Now you go Game 1 against LAD and neither deGrom or Scherzer are able to pitch in that one. Whoever pitched first in the WC would be available Game 2 at the earliest. The other then Game 3. Game 5 would have to be on short rest by the Game 2 pitcher if it came to that.
Seems like a model for disaster if you think they’re saying it’s more important to give Scherzer some rest now so he’s ready for the playoffs. These games now shape the Mets chances in a massive way. They’re definitely not “fine” sitting on Scherzer and missing out on the East.
MJ;
Do you know that Schurzer won’t pitch until the playoffs? Do you know if he’ll pitch before the playoffs?…..and if so, how many times and for how many innings?
There’s a month to go in the season. They put Max on a 15 day IL -retroactive to 9/4, meaning for 12 days.
Why are you and others jumping to conclusions about Max, the Mets, and the Braves?
Teams don’t set their playoff rotations 30 days before the season ends. There’s a lot of money at stake here. I doubt the Mets or any contending team isn’t weighting all possibly scenarios and making their decisions on players understanding that this is the real, adult world; challenges present themselves, and risk / reward will be the primary consideration in all decisions.
P.S. MJ…..
At the time that signing was make I thought Mr. Cohen gave Max too many years and too much money per year in that contract. But he wanted the the Mets to win NOW, and didn’t care about the money. Future penalties the Mets run into (other than fines) may cause them problems at that time. Am sure he knows that and is developing a strategy to deal with it.
I think it’s crazy to think that way too, the Mets need to win the division; I know this is a dream , but may be McGill will come back soon and give us that punch he had earlier in the year…Also, Peterson can be good and Williams does a decent job when used a lot. Another dark horse who can do well as a starter if used right is Lugo. Be interesting to see how this all unfolds, makes the season fun to watch… Go Mets!!!
@Samuel
What in the world are you rambling about? You literally posted above that if it costs them the NL East title to sit him for a bit in September that you’re “sure they’re fine with it”. I also never said he wouldn’t pitch the rest of the year. Just that your assumption they’re ok missing out on the division is completely asinine.
Here I’ll play you for a minute…
Are you sure they’re fine with it? Do you know if they’re fine missing him for 3 starts (or more)? Are you certain the time away won’t have huge implications on their season? Do you even know if he’ll return after the 15 days are up? Will he for sure be totally healthy after the 15 day rest?
Look who is jumping to conclusions now. I guess you know that it will definitely only be the 15 game minimum. And that once he’s back he’ll totally fine going forward without any lingering effects. And that the Mets are totally ok with losing the division as long as it means he’s heathy in October.
P.S. Samuel winning a World Series is more than just showing up with a roster in October. The matchups you draw and homefield you have matters. Just ask the Dodgers how it felt to miss out on homefield in the NLCS last year because they were the WC team. They fell behind early on the road and never recovered. I’m sure they were “fine with it” too… right? I mean they made the playoffs and that was the only thing that mattered… right? At least it is by the way you talk.
Keep coping. Mets aren’t purposely protecting Scherzer for the playoffs by sacrificing the next two weeks without him at a critical juncture of their entire season. He’s on the IL because the Mets have been forced to put him there. Not out of any type of insurance policy to guarantee he’s healthy for October.
MJ;
These are silly arguments….
mets strategy is to ride degrom and scherzer through the playoffs. if they’re both healthy, mets are the team to beat imo
Your imo for a Mets fan is no surprise. That’s probably been your imo for the last 25 years.
MLB regular season is forty-games too long and this cautionary resting-of-players continues to get worse. $200 a ticket to see your favorite player at rest? Baseball is consumed, to its detriment, by history & stats. Evolve.
I wouldn’t agree with 40 games too long, but I think the season should be cut to 148 or 150 games. All professional sports leagues have regular seasons that are way too long.
Agreed, 1985. Cutting 40-games is ideal, in my opinion, but the economics of MLB would not allow same. Quality over quantity. It surprises me with all this “pace of play” and “baseball is boring” chatter that the excessive regular season schedule is rarely discussed. The MLB regular season is simply too long – people lose interest. Anthony Rizzo is correct.
The long 162 game schedule rewards those organizations with the best planning, the best depth, the best flexibility, the best medical professionals and even the best luck to a degree.
The regular season is not a sprint, it is a marathon. The post season? Well that is a different thing all together.
That same logic would apply to a 122-game schedule, Southi.
Agree. The joy of baseball is the regular season. All playoffs are crapshoots.
Agreed. I feel like the playoffs are 50-50 all around. Football might be “any given sunday” but baseball is any given DAY..
I don’t know about 40 games. The cream rises to the top, and there’s something to be said for the marathon that is baseball. The Braves run has been incredible. The Dodgers and Mets have been consistent all year. So I like the longer season, but maybe 20 or so less games would be ok.
True, Von. I suppose I’m showing my colours as a fan of the condensed NCAA format.
I’d vote for a 365 game season, but then I’d never get anything done ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
120 games? Remember they lost some of the season (made up by more double-headers and games during off-days) due to the lockout.
Besides Scherzer, who exactly are you referring to? Verlander on the IL – coming back from TJ at almost-40? Scherzer at 38 with a lot of miles on his arm? Let’s not change the game for descending stars. HOU and NYM perhaps are depending too much on guys that are game changers, but also have red flags in recent history that could foreshadow a breakdown when they’re needed most (i.e. Scherzer missing the playoffs in 2021 for LAD).
Players taking “rest days,” akin to “load management” in the NBA, is my central issue, Run. If a player needs to rest in order to endure the regular season, I suggest the season is too long. I’m not questioning Max, he’s a beast, the event just prompted a response on my behalf.
No that just means the season is too long for Max an almost 40 year old player, They should rest players according to their stamina.
Can’t charge $200 a ticket, at best, and rest players, James – in my opinion. That’s misleading the fans. Players play – I respect guys like Bryce Harper.
Maybe it should be shortened to 10 games.. That way fans that don’t really like baseball would stop complaining about length of the season. The the other 152 games can be played stealthily for those that like baseball.
That’s a shallow point to make, Big. Low hanging fruit. You can do better.
That’s a shame
Max did this every year with the Nats it seemed. He’d get a dead arm or some sort of fatigue, take a couple weeks out of the rotation, and come back strong. It used to be in August though so he’d have strong Septembers. With his time off due to injury earlier this season, maybe the fatigue is hitting him a little later this year. He’ll be back, and he’ll be strong.
Or he’s a 38-year-old human with lots of mileage on that arm (and thus, body), and just as happened last year in LA–when either he couldn’t go because of a “dead arm” or he didn’t want to potentially harm the Mets’ ability to staggeringly overpay him–this is what an older power pitcher looks like.
You have to think the Mets are going to have to look at Max the same way LA looks at Kershaw: Hall of Fame talents on the back sides of their careers, whose availability will no longer be something upon which you can count. Which, in the Mets’ case, is a tough look, when you still owe your back-sider north of $80M over the next two years………
That’s not true. Max didn’t start missing his starts until his last 2 years in Washington.
When I started running races in 1981, the two most popular races were 10K’s and marathons. Now it’s 5K’s and half marathons. The average person has wimped out. But there’s also Ironman triathlons and ultramarathons available. The 162 game season is a marathon. What has changed is the postseason. It’s gone from a 7 game World Series to multiple rounds and many more games. It does seem logical to consider reducing the regular season number of games. I think it would be reasonable to do it in a way that reflects the travel requirements so that teams aren’t at a competitive disadvantage. For instance, I hate the Sunday night baseball game. As much as possible, play during the day. I don’t have a number in mind for reducing the season but maybe it should be on the table for discussion.
C’mon man, you and I both know that isn’t happening either way though.
whyhayzee;
B I N G O !
Elongated playoffs are ruining the regular season in all sports.
Back when Charles Barkley was playing he said that spending a month in the playoffs after the regular season – and playing those games at an even more intense level while cutting into the number of days of the offseason to recuperate – always hurt his play the first few month of the next season. He had to make adjustments to deal with it, as did his coaches with all the players.
The yearly mets collapse is happening before our eyes…. Just sit back, relax, and watch the “fans” go insane.
Will it be a Braves collapse if they lose the division now? What kind of betting odds are you going to give me since your so confident the Braves have now won the division?
Braves are simply a better team. I know it. You know it. Everybody knows it. They made up 10.5 games since May. The Mets don’t have a winning pedigree. The Braves do. The Braves also have the most balanced team in the league with a bunch of super young arms that the Mets would give their right nut to have. Braves arrow is pointing up. Mets is trajecting downward. Get used to it.
The Braves have a losing record vs .500 teams. The Braves have beat up losing teams since May. Try having a winning record against winning teams before you act like you are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Who cares who you beat? Is that some kind of silver medal or something?
i too think that the team that’s 30-31 against winning teams is better than the team that’s 43-33 against them. but sure the Braves are better
No that means if the season ended today that the Mets win the division. It’s called the tie breaker rules but didn’t expect you to know that.
Terrible for the Mets. I don’t wish injury on any player. However, GO BRAVES!
I’m guessing the Mets we’re hoping Max starting more games than 20 as of Sept 7. I have no doubt the guy is a HOF player. He has 3 cy young’s and is past the magic 3000K mark. He would probably have 20-30 more wins if he’d played for different teams in his career as well. Last years “dead arm” and this years “left side fatigue” is a little scary. I’ve always admired the guy (till he almost dropped his pants on the field for a illegal substance check anyways). Max is still above average when he does play but time is catching up to him. Side note no thanks on shortening the season. MLB has already messed up enough recently.
I would say he’s more than above average and has remained elite when he pitches, but there are developing cracks in the armor due to his age and intensity. It’s not just this year’s oblique, but as you noted last year’s dead arm hurt the Dodgers in the postseason, which he then blamed on the Dodgers, but he also didn’t take the mound in game 5 of the World Series for the Nats, who easily lost that game to the Astros and Cole. Strasburg basically saved the Nats season and Scherzer’s reputation in game 6 by giving Max another chance, although Scherzer was totally mediocre in game 7. He’s been good, but not great in October.
Woe is Mets! Breaking down the stretch and getting blown out by bottom feeding teams.
Still in 1st Place though LOL
The NL East will once again be “the home of the … Braves In First Place!” should NYM lose their day game and ATL win their getaway game.
So much paralysis by analysis! If he comes back in 2 weeks OK! If he misses the playoffs bad! As Harry Carey used to sing: The braves are coming tra la la la!
One shouldn’t be surprised. When the front of your pitching staff is loaded with guys over 35 anything is bound to happen. You never know how things are going to go with older pitchers. They can help you win it all or not even make the team because of injury.
He already missed seven weeks this season with fatigue in the same left oblique. Don’t know how they can predict he’ll be back in two weeks this time. Great if he is, but prepare for he won’t.
Save him for playoffs. Don’t need him til then
if winning the division weren’t so critical i would agree. the mets are paying him to make 5 dominant starts in october. everything else is just a bonus
They kinda need him to win the division, which they will undoubtedly not do again.
Greg Maddux pitched until 42. He pitched 34 games at age 41, a year in which he had a complete game. He also threw 198 innings that year.
In 2021, Scherzer pitched in 30 games at the age of 37. That year he threw 179 innings.
What is different between those two? Does being on a more robust throwing program throughout the season make you stronger?
Mechanics, body types, Maddux relied on command vs. velocity (Max S).
I think we all can agree that Maddux the last few years was not the Maddux in his prime.
An Ace Hall of Fame pitcher that Father Time is beating up is just a name at his career, and not the guy he once was.
Maddux was better than average through age-40 with LAD per ERA+. His following 2 seasons were just slightly below average, per same stat. Not bad.
Some guys are the exception, not the rule. Very, very few people in elite sport can still be productive into their 40’s.
Can anyone tell me the advantage of putting a player on the 15 day IL instead of the 10 day DL? A 10 day IL can go longer if necessary but a 15 day stint can’t go shorter than that.
15-day IL is for pitchers, 10-day IL is for position players.
It’s not a choice. Pitchers have to go on the 15-day IL; position players go on the 10-day DL. Teams like the Dodgers were abusing the 10-day DL, using it to rest starting pitchers, so they changed the rule.
Injuries can obviously happen to anyone, but old power pitchers are especially risky. Can the injury prone deGrom be far behind? I hope not. He’s the best in the game when healthy.
Watching the Mets fall is truly a great thing. Year, after year, after year.
Whoever created the schedule had the NYM fans in mind. Of the final 26 games, they have the slumping Brewers for 3 games, 3 against Atl, and the other 20 games where the Cubs are their toughest opponent.
JoeBrady;
B I N G O !
Yes. The Mets may well win the division while using Max to do nothing more than tune up for the playoffs.
Uh, Mets thought they had an easy ride at the end of the 2007 and 2008 seasons too. The problem is that their opponents didn’t get the memo. So they ended up being the first (and only team to date) to choke away leads and get eliminated by the same team in two consecutive seasons.
Of course, the Mets had Jose Reyes back then to motivate their opponents with his routine of hosting Disco Fever on the field in those years.
Who will be the Mets player this year to disrespect the opponent or take them for granted this year?
Curious as to why my longer comments get double posted and then when I delete one of them they both disappear?
Smacky;
I’ve had the same problem.
I’d guess it’s a programming glitch – doubt it’s personal.
Don’t delete one of the double posted comments. One comment should show when you refresh the page.
Ok, cool. Thanks!
I’m not sure anyone will really be surprised by the Braves passing the Mets, or the situation of the aging ballplayers getting hurt.
The Mets did have a nice offseason, but if the injuries to aging stars ends up being the difference this year, can that really be an excuse when we all know that Father Time beats everyone…and all of the Mets big offseason moves were of guys that are well into the wrong side of 30.
MarlinsFanBase;
I like your posts.
I believe there are a bit over 25-26 games left in the season for most teams. Lots can happen. The other day I noted that the classic case was the Phillies blowing a 6-1/2 game lead in 1964 with 12 games left. One team finished a game ahead of them, one team tied them.
This nonsense about setting the rotation at this point of the season, or exposing one of your top starters to additional injury because you’re worried about home field advantage is the playoffs is just silly. Like always, the players will do their best on the field of play. We get to watch.
I’ll try to stay away from these sort of What-If conversations for the rest of the season. As I wrote above – there are a lot of possible scenarios and no action any team can take is going to be perfect.
Those fans talking smack about who is a better team are doing just that, talking smack.
The Mets have a better schedule for the final month of the season, meanwhile the Braves have the Mariners, the Giants, the Phillies away, it may come down to the series at home v the Mets. Whoever wins the division, congratulations, it’s a close run thing, but don’t come on here and be disrespectful of either team. a game or two in it over 162 games doesn’t really tell me who is better, furthermore the Braves run differential is better than the Mets. We will see shortly who prevails but the Braves have a far tougher final month.
Where are those so called Braves fans that wanted to DFA Ozuna? Laughable, and you call yourself Braves fans when there you are plunging the knife in his back figuratively speaking.
I hope Scherzer is better soon. But the fact is the media obscure the truth, and Max himself knew there was something wrong, but there you have the lies the media assert calling it “fatigue”, you’re either injured or you’re not, a fatigued muscle is not really any reason to go on the IL for 15 days.
It’s strange though, all during the year you’ve had these Mets fans saying, “we’re in front by 10”, “we’re better”, and all the rest of it. Not talking so much now, are you. Don’t ever disrespect your opponent.
The Mets and Atlanta fans can have their fun. If deGrom is not healthy for post-season, Mets are toast. If deGrom is healthy for post-season, even Dodgers and Braves will be tested.
Mets took a gamble with Scherzer, not a bad gamble if you are going to be a top three team in payroll. A horrible gamble for any team with a medium payroll.
Gonsolin, Urias, Buehler (uh, never mind), Kershaw all home-grown. Strider, Wright, Ian Anderson (uh, never mind) all home grown. Most impressive run, that would be the Phillies, with their pitching I honestly saw the Phillies being a sub 0.500 team that was fun to watch the offense.
plenty of time for him to get back in time to bow out of game 7