The first time Scherzer gripped a baseball after messing around on the piano, his thumb immediately felt better. So he kept playing. Late at night after a road game last August, Max Scherzer made a special request at the front desk of the Ritz-Carlton in Denver. “Can you please unlock the piano?” Chris Bassitt, then a teammate of Scherzer’s with the Toronto Blue Jays, sat and list... [8891 chars]