“I’d much rather fail on the biggest stages than not to get to be here at all. It’s a special thing to get to be in the postseason,” Kershaw says as he prepares to face the Diamondbacks in their NL…
Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw speaks to the media prior to a workout for the upcoming National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday at Dodger Stadium. The early years were filled with disappointments and even tears, overshadowing many of the good times. But they have come to an accommodation in recent years and here they are again, dancing together once more.
“I kind of said this today a little bit with the guys, but I think the one thing that has switched for me a little bit is you use those nerves – but where are the nerves coming from?” Kershaw said. “I think at times maybe in the past I had a fear of failure and didn’t want to go out there and fail. I think now it’s just a lot more positive.
“I’d much rather fail on the biggest stages than not to get to be here at all,” he said. “It’s a special thing to get to be in the postseason.”? Missing the postseason entirely due to an arm injury in 2021? Or just the realization that he is very close to the end of his career? “This year was a little bit up in the air for a minute,” he said, referring to the shoulder injury that landed him on the injured list for six weeks at midseason and robbed him of velocity. “So it makes you all the more grateful to be here.”“I don’t know what it’s like to be a superstar, Hall of Famer, so I was much easier to convince to adapt to survive,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts joked.
But he has done it while pitching more than five innings just once since July, getting at least five days off before each start since returning from the IL and adapting his pitch mix along the way to the new realities of life with a compromised shoulder and diminished velocity.“I think I stopped chasing some things and just started embracing what I had and started learning how to pitch like that,” Kershaw said of his improvements down the stretch.
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