Max Scherzer talks with J.P. Morosi to discuss George Springer's clutch home run and the thrill of the Blue Jays going to the World Series

Big Papi, A-Rod and Derek Jeter talked with Max Scherzer about his postseason run with the Toronto Blue Jays and the winning mentality that has powered multiple World Series appearances with three different teams.

On Thursday night, he saw the dramatic scene on the mound in Seattle, when Blue Jays starting pitcher Max Scherzer barked at John Schneider as the Toronto manager went to have a conversation with the future Hall of Famer, debating a pitching change with a Mariners runner on in the fifth inning.

In October, every pitch, swing, play and decision is heightened everywhere. On the field, in the dugout, in the game-planning meetings pregame and, more than any time or any other place, after the game is played out and the result of all those decisions are final.

Max Scherzer, making his first start of the postseason, led Toronto over Seattle on Thursday night to even the ALCS at two games apiece.

From a leadership perspective, Blue Jays manager John Schneider's mound visit with pitcher Max Scherzer was revealing and fascinating.

In 2004, UAlbany baseball knocked off the University of Missouri 5-3 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Scherzer, then a Missouri freshman, entered the game trailing 4-2 in the top of the eighth.

If the Los Angeles Dodgers are to become the first back-to-back World Series champions since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees, they will have to go through the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays punched their ticket to the Fall Classic with a Game 7 win over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night as George Springer hit a game-winning home run.