With 5 shutout innings, Kershaw improves to 26-15 all-time vs. SF, lowers career ERA vs. Giants to 1.99.
LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw has faced the San Francisco Giants more than any other team, and on Saturday took the mound at Dodger Stadium, possibly for the final time. The 35-year-old future Hall of Famer’s status after this season is uncertain. He’s battled injuries. His fastball isn’t what it once was. He’s a different pitcher.
Without so much as a fastball that registered 90 mph on the radar gun, Kershaw easily dispatched his flailing opponents, blanking the Giants for five innings while the Dodgers sent them to their seventh loss in 10 games on this road trip, 7-0. His hottest heater was clocked at 89.7 mph. The clearest sign of Kershaw’s mortality didn’t come from anything of the Giants’ doing, mustering only two hits and two walks in his five innings, but the fact that his night was over after only five frames and 76 pitches. It was his 12th time in 56 career starts against the Giants that Kershaw left without allowing a run but the first of those starts that his exit came before the sixth — five times taking it all the way.
Kershaw has faced off against four active players more than Brandon Crawford but was robbed of another battle when Crawford landed on the injured list prior to this series. The next generation of Giants shortstops, though, got off to a better start than Crawford, who has 14 strikeouts, no extra-base hits and a .125 average in 51 plate appearances against Kershaw.
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