SIMMONS: Are the Blue Jays mad going with Mad Max Scherzer for Game 3?

SIMMONS: Are the Blue Jays mad going with Mad Max Scherzer for Game 3?

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

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.

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 so much to doubt.

And not just Scherzer, now. The doubt stretches to Shane Bieber, who was pushed back from a likely Game 3 start to a Game 4 with the Jays. That means the organization, right now, has more faith in the 41-year-old

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