Kershaw

When Los Angeles last saw Clayton Kershaw, his head was buried in his hands and boos were ringing in his ears.His shoulder was shot. His postseason was shredded. He was surely finished as a Dodger. He was probably finished as a pitcher.Kershaw trudged quietly out of Dodger Stadium that October night after giving up six runs to the first eight Arizona Diamondbacks hitters in a nightmarish playoff opener, his pitiful appearance draped with the saddest of questions.Is this really how a future Hall of Famer was going to walk…

DENVER —  Clayton Kershaw said his shoulder got “a little cranky” in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies and that he was diagnosed with inflammation. The Dodgers left-hander received a cortisone injection and remains hopeful that he’ll be able to make at least one more start before the All-Star break.“I’ve had some shoulder stuff in the past, like three or four years ago, and usually the shots help pretty good,” Kershaw said before Thursday night’s series finale against the Rockies. “So…

DENVER —  There was little mystery to Clayton Kershaw’s mastery of the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night. The Dodgers left-hander pounded the strike zone, was pitch-efficient and induced plenty of soft contact while allowing one hit in six innings of a 5-0 victory in Coors Field.The real intrigue came after a game in which Dodgers slugger J.D. Martinez became the 156th major leaguer to hit 300 home runs, when manager Dave Roberts said Kershaw experienced considerable “fatigue” after losing a no-hit bid with two outs in…

Clayton Kershaw is nowhere near as dominant as he was from 2011 to ’17, when he went 118-41 with a 2.10 earned-run average in 207 starts and won three National League Cy Young Awards and a most valuable player award.But even at 35, with a sometimes balky back and nearly 2,700 innings on his odometer, the Dodgers left-hander has been the clear-cut ace of an injury-ravaged rotation that lost Walker Buehler to Tommy John surgery, Dustin May to a major forearm injury and has been without Julio Urías (left hamstring strain)…

When Clayton Kershaw took the mound Friday night, the typically regimented rotation of his world was suddenly spinning upside down.Off the field, the 35-year-old was under an unusually intense spotlight, thrusting himself into the middle of the Dodgers recent Pride Night controversy after publicly disagreeing with the team’s decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — and pushing for the club’s relaunch of Christian Faith and Family Day — earlier in the week.On the field, the three-time Cy Young Award winner…

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Jack Harris: Clayton Kershaw said he disagreed with the Dodgers’ decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during the team’s upcoming Pride Night game, and that he approached the organization about expediting his announcement of the club’s relaunching of Christian Faith and Family Day as a response.In an interview with The Los Angeles Times at Dodger Stadium on Monday, Kershaw said that while there were tentative plans for the club to…

Clayton Kershaw said he disagreed with the Dodgers’ decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during the team’s upcoming Pride Night game, and that he approached the organization about expediting his announcement of the club’s relaunching of Christian Faith and Family Day as a response.In an interview with The Los Angeles Times at Dodger Stadium on Monday, Kershaw said that while there were tentative plans for the club to bring the Christian event back this year — it was an annual staple on the Dodgers’…

Saturday night began with a pregame ceremony for Manny Mota, the former pinch-hitter extraordinaire, coach, broadcaster and community activist who became the sixth player selected as one of the Legends of Dodger Baseball.The rest of the evening belonged to the legend currently inhabiting the Dodgers dugout, Clayton Kershaw burnishing his Hall of Fame resume with seven innings of pure dominance in a 1-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals before a crowd of 48,763.Kershaw retired the first 13 batters to kick off a…

Pitcher wins might be a discounted stat in modern baseball culture, an old-school relic considered too unrepresentative for the sport’s modern analytical era.On Tuesday night, however, Clayton Kershaw offered a resounding counter-argument, deserving every little bit of his landmark 200th career win.With a scoreless, spectacular, seven-inning gem, Kershaw willed the Dodgers to 5-0 defeat of the New York Mets, eclipsing the latest milestone of his legendary career in historic fashion and dominant style.Not only did the…

Ahead of the first matchup between Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner in almost five years, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts predicted the showdown would “bring out the best” in the two decorated left-handers.He noted their career-long friendship and mutual respect; their competitive nature and equally intense internal drives.“They always want to outdo one another,” Roberts said. “You’re gonna see that come out tonight.”The only problem?Bumgarner no longer resides in Kershaw’s future Hall of Fame realm.And in the Dodgers’…