Clayton Kershaw throws seven shutout innings and David Peralta has four hits as Dodgers beat the Reds 6-0 to stop losing streak at four games.
The team’s starters haven’t pitched nearly deep enough into games.“It’s important,” manager Dave Roberts said about starting pitching length. “With relievers as volatile as they are, to put them in stressful games every night, to have to use certain guys every night, it gets taxing.”Diego Cartaya entered the season as a consensus top-15 prospect. As with nearly every prospect at this stage, questions about Cartaya’s professional future linger.
Indeed, Kershaw’s outing was hardly out of his own personal norm. He has completed at least six innings in nine of 13 starts this season, and gone seven innings in five of them.Thursday was also the third one in which he didn’t allow a run, capping the performance by collecting his 2,900th career strikeout.
“Our job as starting pitchers is to pitch deep into games, get those seven-, eight-inning games, reset the bullpen,” said Kershaw, who ensured Roberts after the sixth inning he was good for one more frame even with his pitch count at 88.
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