Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw calls out ‘bush league’ Cardinals for enjoying home-run video earlier than recreation
The St. Louis Cardinals, it appears, obtained below Clayton Kershaw’s pores and skin Sunday afternoon.
Kershaw led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 7-3 win on Sunday in Missouri. He had seven strikeouts and didn’t quit a run in 5 innings on the mound. It marked the 37-year-old’s first seven-strikeout recreation since 2023.
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However earlier than the competition at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals’ video crew opted to play a video from greater than a decade in the past that featured Kershaw. The Cardinals confirmed Matt Adams hitting a go-ahead three-run homer off Kershaw in Sport 4 of the Nationwide League Division Collection in 2014. That helped lead the Cardinals to a 3-2 win that day and eradicated the Dodgers from the postseason.
Kershaw took discover of the video stunt, and he wasn’t joyful.
“It’s somewhat bush league, however I don’t anticipate something much less from these guys,” Kershaw mentioned, by way of The Los Angeles Instances. “So it’s no worries. No downside.”
Honest or not, Kershaw actually got here out on high Sunday.
The win marked simply the fifth begin for Kershaw this 12 months. He missed the primary two months of the season whereas recovering from knee and toe accidents, and he didn’t make his debut till Could 17. The three-time Cy Younger award winner holds a 4.35 ERA with 15 strikeouts over his 5 begins this season.
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The win for the Dodgers allowed them to keep away from the sequence sweep with the Cardinals, who gained the primary two video games. The Dodgers now sit at 39-27 heading right into a three-game sequence with the San Diego Padres beginning on Monday evening.
“The outcomes haven’t at all times been there, however I really feel like there’s been somewhat little bit of progress in every [start],” Kershaw mentioned, by way of The Instances. “In all probability the largest factor, I had somewhat bit higher command.
“I felt like I had an thought the place the ball was going. When it was going unhealthy, I didn’t actually know the best way to right it. [Today] after I threw a foul one, I had some concepts on the best way to repair it with the following pitch. Pitching is simply making the adjustment as fast as you may. It wasn’t excellent, but it surely’s getting higher.”