They can call it whatever they want, but the fact that Washington’s Max Scherzer threw a perfect inning Tuesday night is pretty darned impressive.

Since we have a name for everything, it’s being called the Immaculate Inning, which reeks of “we have to come up with something, so think of something quickly.”

In the sixth inning against Tampa Bay — hey, it still counts — Scherzer threw nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts. The “Perfect Inning” apparently wasn’t sexy enough, so alliteration was the next best option and it became “Immaculate.”

Scherzer is the dominant pitcher in baseball and the inning Tuesday night showed just how dominant he can be. It was men against boys (yes, I realize it was Tampa Bay). He’s as good as you can be these days and it’s a long trip down to the next best pitcher for this season (Justin Verlander) or for this era (Clayton Kershaw).

The numbers back it up, but I didn’t really appreciate Scherzer until I saw him in person two years ago. Television doesn’t show you how he wants the ball in his hands as soon as he can get it. He practically goes and gets it from the third baseman after they throw it around after a strikeout. After he gives up a hit, he gets back on the mound immediately and gets back to work. Gimme the ball.

Pitchers have to be competitive to survive, but Scherzer is at a different level. In the last 20 years, I’d probably rather have Scherzer to pitch a Game 7 over any other pitcher in baseball. He’s 10-1 this season with a 1.95 ERA. He’s got a 133 strikeouts (far more than anybody else) and only 19 walks. He’s had only one start in which he’s allowed more than two earned runs. That 10-1 record has come with a Nationals team that pretty much stunk during the first six weeks of the season.

In case you missed it, he has as many Cy Young Awards as Kershaw.

And if he wasn’t special enough, he has hasheterochromia iridum. Your Daily Happen homework assignment is to go look that one up.