Blue Jays' starter Max Scherzer gives update on back tightness

"It's actually kind of minor," Scherzer said during an appearance on the Foul Territory podcast Tuesday. "(It was the) upper scap. Before the game, I woke up normal, looking down at the scouting reports, and I looked up, and all of a sudden I could feel that my upper scap was tight."

Max Scherzer says his upper scapula tightness is only a minor issue.

"I heated up thinking it was going to go away," Scherzer later added. "But then kind of in the second inning, I felt it get a little tighter on me... You could see it was compromising my stuff. I was good, it was (a dull pain), it wasn't sharp. It was something I thought I could pitch through, but it was affecting my stuff and I had to come out of the game early because of that."

Max Scherzer (back) is feeling better with each passing day and is going through his normal between-starts routine. He's on track to start Saturday vs. the Yankees.