Max Scherzer couldn't get out of bed when he woke up on Sunday morning.

The pain in his neck and right trapezius muscle was so intense that his wife, Erica, had to help him get dressed.

That led to Scherzer being scratched from his scheduled start in Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday night.

"I'm as disappointed as I possibly can be not to be able to pitch tonight," Scherzer said. "It's Game 5 of the World Series. I've pitched through so much crap in my career that that would be easy to pitch through at this point. This is literally impossible to do anything with."

Joe Ross started in Scherzer's placed.