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Max Scherzer just rescued a piece of MLB history from his garbage can

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:38 p.m. ET

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Chris Bahr

Nationals ace Max Scherzer made a terrifying discovery when he looked in the trash can on Wednesday.

Apparently, his wife was doing some autumn cleaning and nearly tossed out a rather historical item:

Scherzer threw two no-hitters during the 2015 season: June 20 against the Pirates and Oct. 3 against the Mets. And it was the jersey from that gem against New York that nearly ended up in a landfill. Apparently, there is a bright side to being eliminated in the NLDS — just imagine if Scherzer was in Cleveland this week and wasn't there to recover his jersey.

As he showed in a follow-up tweet, Scherzer got the last laugh. Well, he probably really didn’t, but we’ll let him think he did.

And just to be safe, it probably wouldn't hurt to frame that jersey.

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