Saturday night’s start against the Giants featured a pitcher who has successfully adapted.
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw reacts after left fielder David Peralta caught a line drive hit by San Francisco Giants’ Austin Slater during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts celebrates in the dugout after scoring off of a double hit by designated hitter J.D. Martinez during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in Los Angeles, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Max Muncy also scored. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Austin Barnes is safe at first ahead of a throw to San Francisco Giants first baseman Wilmer Flores during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023.
The best pitcher of his generation, and maybe the best pitcher the Dodgers have ever had , hasn’t necessarily reinvented himself as much as he’s learned how to make do, and quite well at that. The main issues right now are health and durability. Saturday night’s goal, as Roberts outlined it before the game, was to get him to five innings and 75 pitches, so mission accomplished there. That outing was on six days rest and so will Kershaw’s next scheduled start, next Saturday in San Francisco.
Maybe we can now describe the shoulder as “obstinate,” or “stubborn.” Yet the 35-year-old Kershaw is still available, in a year where injuries and misconduct have decimated the rotation that was projected coming out of spring training. It’s Kershaw and the Kids, and in his 16th season as a Dodger, he perhaps has established himself as the franchise’s ace of aces.
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