scherzer made his regular season debut for the nationals as their opening day starting pitcher versus the new york mets on april 6, 2015. he struck out eight over innings in a 3–1 loss. on june 14, 2015, he pitched his second career complete game, ceding one hit and one walk in a 4–0 shutout against the milwaukee brewers at miller park. he accrued six perfect innings before carlos gómez, leading off the seventh inning, fought off a fastball for a bloop single to right field inches past the outstretched glove of second baseman anthony rendon. scherzer's 16 strikeouts established a new personal best and a nationals team record for one game, surpassing stephen strasburg's effort of 14 versus the pittsburgh pirates on june 8, 2010. rated with a game score of 100, scherzer's was the 12th time in mlb history such a score or higher had been achieved.