For the Washington Nationals, though, Scherzer’s honor is just an outcropping of the reason they signed him two winters ago.

While spearing for octopus on a rough outcropping of rocks, a rogue wave came in and washed him off his feet.

The relatively small, flat island of Anguilla appeared as a scrub-covered outcropping on the horizon, an easily overlooked smudge on the surface of the sea.