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WASHINGTON -- Max Scherzer remembers being urged to try to slow everything down for his postseason debut five years ago.Take an extra breath, they said. Be calm as can be, they said. Dial down the intensity, they said.Not exactly what he needed to hear, Scherzer quickly discovered.Scherzer, who starts Game 1 of the NL Division Series for the Washington Nationals against Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday, was fed those frequently heard words of wisdom way back when.Pitching for the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium, he walked two batters in the first inning. Thats when he cursed at himself and realized he never should have listened to others -- and wound up taking a no-hitter into the sixth that day.Scherzer is as intense as they come when hes pitching, and he needed to maintain that in the postseason.Whatever you do to have success in the regular season, do the exact same thing. Yes, the lights are brighter. Yes, the seats are all full. Yes, the start times are weird. Theres tons of media. You have a lot of distractions; youve got family and friends all wanting tickets. The outside things are a little bit different, but mentally, you have to still be the same, Scherzer explained.I know theres this notion of, `Hey, just go out there and relax. Try to slow the game down. That can be the worst advice anybodys ever given, he continued. No, you hit the ground running and do exactly what you do. If you go out there with aggression in the regular season, you do the same thing.So expect to see Scherzer stomping and stalking around the Nationals Park mound on Friday, while facing the likes of Corey Seager, Adrian Gonzalez, Justin Turner and Chase Utley.And they know what theyre in for, even if the Dodgers didnt face Scherzer in 2016, when he went 20-7 with a 2.96 ERA and a majors-leading 284 strikeouts, including a record-tying 20 in one game.Obviously, hes a really good pitcher. Lively fastball. Strikes out a lot of guys, and has won a lot of games for them this year, said Turner, who has never batted against Scherzer. Were going to go study up on him and watch the films and put together a game plan.Thats the same sort of thing the Nationals might be expected to say about Kershaw, a three-time NL Cy Young Award winner who went 12-4 with a 1.69 ERA in only 21 starts this season, missing more than two months with a back injury. Since returning in September, he was 1-2 with a 0.96 ERA in five starts.Scherzer became a leading candidate for this years NL Cy Young Award -- he won the AL honor for Detroit in 2013 -- by becoming, to use his words, better as a pitcher.I continued to evolve, he said, pointing specifically to a cut slider that he throws to left-handed batters.The hitters I face are great. Theres a reason theyre driving nice cars on the other side, Scherzer said. So I had to find more swing-and-miss pitches for lefties, and still find ways to pitch effectively against right-handed hitters.It took Scherzer a while to get going this season: During April and May, he was a combined 5-4 with a 4.05 ERA.He started slow this year, Nationals shortstop Danny Espinosa said. But I dont think we expected that to continue.Of course not. From June 1 on, Scherzer was 15-3 with a 2.44 ERA.When its time to shut the game down, to let the other team know that the games over and theyre not getting any runs, its obvious. When he says, `Game over, its game over. You can see it, Espinosa said. You have to have those pitchers who, when you get `em a lead, they keep that lead, and throw a shutdown inning. He does that.Game notes The Dodgers landed in Washington on Wednesday and went to Nationals Park for a workout that started at about 9 p.m. ... 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Ron Quinton has developed a reputation as a master of apprentices and an imposing trainer of fillies and mares.On Saturday at Rosehill the combination of both was on display when Daysee Doom ridden by 19-year-old Andrew Adkins justified Quintons faith and that of the punters with a decisive win.Sent out the $2.90 favourite in the Club Marconi (1200m) Daysee Doom was held up to make a sustained run in the straight to win by 1-1/4 lengths from Nudierudie ($7.50).Although he had only a small team in work, former champion jockey Quinton knows how to get the best out of his horses and the young jockeys in his care.Adkins is the latest to come under his wing with Sam Clipperton graduating to Hong Kong racing and champion jockey Hugh Bowman among those to attend the Quinton school of racing.Andrew rode her very well. He has learned to be more patient on them, Quinton said.The winning post is at the far end not the top of the straight.Daysee Doom has put together two nice wins now and I think I wiill give her a little holiday, just a couple of weeks, and look for some Listed races for her in the new year.ddddddddddddAnd if Andrew is nice to me he might even get to ride her.Daysee Dooms win was her fifth from seven starts with Clipperton riding her to her first three earlier this year and Adkins to her most recent two.She has won from 1100 to 1400 metres but over the shorter distances this preparation they have been too nippy for her, Quinton said.I think 1300 to 1400 is her best.Daysee Dooms stablemate Dixie Blossoms is also having a short break after her close fourth in the Group One Myer Classic at Flemington two weeks ago.I will get her ready for the Coolmore Classic, Quinton said.She did a great job.Quinton won the 2012 Group One Coolmore Classic with Ofcourseican and again last year with Peeping who died prematurely in May after a bout with colic. 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