{"id":31704,"date":"2020-07-21T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/max-scherzer-look-alike-will-confuse-nationals-yankees-fans\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:51:00","slug":"max-scherzer-look-alike-will-confuse-nationals-yankees-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/max-scherzer-look-alike-will-confuse-nationals-yankees-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"#Max Scherzer look-alike will confuse Nationals, Yankees fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Max Scherzer look-alike will confuse Nationals, Yankees fans<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n They say that somewhere in the world there is someone who looks just like you, and it just so happ<\/a>ens that Max Scherzer\u2019s doppelg\u00e4nger resides five miles from Nationals Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was at a grocery store [in 2015] going down the aisle and a random guy was yelling at me, \u2018Hey Max, Max,\u2019 and I thought it was mistaken identity, like this guy has a friend named Max,\u201d Kevin Kramer told The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n

The man believed he was shopping for milk alongside the star pitcher the Nationals had just signed to a seven-year, $210 million contract, and invited him to throw out the first pitch at his baseball league.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when it hit me,\u201d Kramer said (and no, Kramer did not throw out that first pitch).<\/p>\n

Since then Kramer, a Washington Heights native who grew up idolizing Mets pitching great Doc Gooden, has received plenty of free drinks at D.C. bars, cheers on the Metro-North following Nationals wins, a police escort around the World Series<\/a> parade, and yes, even a few interested women have showed interest thanks to the uncanny resemblance.<\/p>\n

So, one can expect a few Nationals fans to be confused on Opening Day when they see a man they think is Scherzer sipping a brew moments before the ace takes the mound against the Yankees.<\/p>\n

At first glance, the 46-year-old Kramer and 35-year-old Scherzer appear identical. They are separated by only two inches \u2014 Kramer is 6-foot-1 while Scherzer is listed at 6-foot-3. The lone, apparent difference is all in the eyes. Scherzer, likely a first-ballot Hall of Famer, has a rare condition called heterochromia iridis, which causes one\u2019s eyes to be two different colors.<\/p>\n

Scherzer\u2019s left eye is brown while his right is blue.<\/p>\n

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Max Scherzer; Kevin Kramer<\/span>Getty, @iamkevinkramer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kramer has brown eyes, but often uses a blue contact lens to add to the fun. He picked up an extra supply of blue contact lenses for Thursday, when he and Nationals fans \u2014 not allowed to enter their stadium for the foreseeable future because of MLB and local government coronavirus guidelines \u2014 will gather at pubs outside the ballpark to watch the team begin its title defense in a shortened 60-game<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Kramer went to Nationals Park to record a video for his Tik Tok social media<\/a> account, where he posts side by side images and videos of himself posing like Scherzer just for laughs. It is all a hobby for Kramer, who heads his own search firm full-time in Arlington, Va.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne woman came up to me and she said, \u2018I hate to bother you but it\u2019s my husband\u2019s birthday, would you mind taking a social-distancing picture,\u2019 and I said, \u2018I\u2019m happy to take a picture with you but I think you\u2019re going to be disappointed because I\u2019m not who you think I am.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very confused,\u201d Kramer said of the fans\u2019 reactions when he comes clean.<\/p>\n

Others think he\u2019s lying when he says he isn\u2019t Scherzer, that he is in fact the three-time Cy Young winner, but is just trying to avoid all of the commotion that comes with being one of the area\u2019s most famous athletes.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Kramer with the Nationals\u2019 World Series trophy.<\/span>@iamkevinkramer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before last year\u2019s World Series, Kramer, whose popularity began to take off during the playoffs, went to Nationals Park to film a segment with a local Fox affiliate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got my Nats hat on, I\u2019ve got my Nats jacket on, I\u2019ve got a black glove on [a Scherzer staple] and I\u2019ve got a blue contact lens in my right eye. I\u2019m basically Max,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cAnd I was not prepared at all to be Max.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy hands me his Nationals hat,\u201d Kramer said, and not knowing what to do, \u201cI took his hat and signed his name on his hat.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a brief conversation it became obvious that the man they thought to be Scherzer wasn\u2019t so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys were obviously starting to question what was going on here and I started to get a little uncomfortable,\u201d Kramer said, offering to buy the fan a new hat when the mix-up was realized, only to be told it wasn\u2019t a problem.<\/p>\n

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Then came the World Series parade. While Scherzer and the rest of the Nationals stars partied on floats during the World Series celebration \u2014 D.C.\u2019s first World Series title since 1924 \u2014 down below Kramer was mobbed by Nationals fans, some hoping to have their babies held up for a photo with the Fall Classic hero. There was no time, Kramer said, to explain to these folks that he wasn\u2019t who they thought he was. Eventually it became so hectic, Kramer said, that he received a police escort, though the officers knew that he was not in fact the real Scherzer.<\/p>\n

It is unclear if Scherzer knows of Kramer\u2019s existence, though Kramer did send him a letter explaining the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

At one point in his life, Kramer thought he was on his way to have more in common with Scherzer than looks.<\/p>\n

Kramer was a righty hurler growing up, like Scherzer, wore No. 32 (Scherzer wears No. 31) and played against Red Sox legend Manny Ramirez, former Mets (and current New York Post Mets podcast host) Nelson Figueroa and former MLB pitcher Francisco Rodriguez in the Parade Grounds summer league, which has seen many other professional baseball players come through it. Kramer was a reliever at Pitt, where he won a Big East championship, but a professional career wasn\u2019t in the cards because of his velocity being stuck in the 80s, he said.<\/p>\n

Kramer has still found fame, albeit not the way he would have imagined, and it even led to him being connected to a long lost cousin in California who saw him featured in the media.<\/p>\n

And of course there are the women, as Kramer \u2014 who has an 8-year-old son \u2014 is an eligible bachelor these days.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just say this,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cFor people to think you look like Max Scherzer. It certainly doesn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ladies like Max Scherzer.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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