on june 11, scherzer became the third-fastest pitcher to reach 2,000 strikeouts (after nolan ryan and clayton kershaw) by striking out nomar mazara of the texas rangers. scherzer also reached the 2,000 plateau in the third-fewest innings (1,784), behind pedro martínez () and randy johnson (). scherzer attained no-hit innings versus the marlins on june 21 until a. j. ellis hit a comebacker that tipped off scherzer's glove and trickled toward shortstop trea turner for miami's first hit. scherzer had struck out 11 and allowed one walk to that point in the contest. he won the nl pitcher of the month award for june, allowing 14 hits and four earned runs for a 0.99 era over the course of innings through five starts. his record was 3–2 and he struck out 51 for an average of 12.63 per nine innings.