Future Hall of Fame pitchers Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer will face off against each other on Friday, so we analyzed the numbers behind their greatness.

Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer will forever be tied together. Along with Justin Verlander, the three comprise an easy and obvious elite tier for the generation of pitchers whose prime ran through the 2010s.

Seventeen years after their first head-to-head matchup, Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer met for perhaps the last time in their storied careers on Friday night when the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1.