Kershaw started at a home game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium on Sunday (Korea time), and allowed one run on five hits during four ⅔ innings. The Dodgers lost the game 2-6, and Kershaw lost the game.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts promptly replaced Kershaw when he allowed one run in the fifth inning. Kershaw did not yield a walk and struck out five.
Up until the fourth inning, Kershaw was close to perfection. Kershaw put the ace pitcher to rest by throwing three outs in the first and second innings, signaling his return.
Kershaw, who struck out leader Kyle Schwarber with a 72.6-mile curve in the top of the first inning, grounded out Trey Turner to shortstop with an 86.9-mile slider on the second pitch and Bryce Harper to fly to third base with a 90.9-mile fastball in the middle.
In the second inning, Alec Bohm, JT Realmuto, and Nick Castejanos were cooked with a ground ball to shortstop, a fly ball to center field, and a fly ball to left field, respectively.
Kershaw let go of a runner for the first time after a hit by Austin Hays, the first player to hit in the top of the third inning. He threw a 91-mile fastball into the strike zone near his body in 2B2S, which was deflected off and made a hit in front of right fielder Andy Pazs.
However, Kershaw struck out Brandon Marsh with a fly ball to right field and Edmundo Sosa with a swing and miss, and ended the inning as Hayes, the first baseman who had been greedy for second base, was tagged out while his third 87.3-mile slider went one-bound at Schwaber’s at-bat and ran sideways after hitting catcher Will Smith.
Kershaw, who struck out the lead Schwaber in the fourth inning with an 85.9-mile slider that stabbed a low strike from the full count, was driven to first and third bases with one out after consecutive hits by Turner and Harper.
Turner hit an 87.1 mile slider on the outside and Harper hit an 83.7 mile slider on the third pitch. However, Kershaw’s value shone all the more in the crisis. Then, he made a big curveball of 74.3 miles on the fifth pitch at 2B2S to strike out swinging, and lightly hit JT Realmuto with a 72.7 mile curve to the third baseman to end the inning.
However, he sent out two runners in the fifth inning to lose the game first. After being hit by a left-handed double by Hayes, Kershaw hit Brandon Marsh to hit the first and second bases, and after hitting the batter’s hand, he struck out Edmundo Sosa with a splitter outside the ninth pitch of 83.4 miles from the full count. However, Schwaber threw an 88.1-mile slider at the center of the full count, and allowed a critical hit, allowing Hayes, the runner at second base, to home.
In the end, manager Dave Roberts went up and replaced Kershaw with Joe Kelly. Kelly caught Turner with a fly to center field and finished the inning without additional runs.
However, Roberts approached Kershaw after the fifth inning and patted him on the back, talking about something. He seemed to be soothing him for not finishing the last five innings. Kershaw nodded.
Throwing 81 pitches, Kershaw posted a maximum speed of 91.4 miles and an average speed of 90.4 miles. He threw 38 sliders, 15 curves, and one splitter, respectively. Kershaw lost two games and posted an ERA of 4.38 in three games this season.
Kershaw returned to the mound on April 26 after eight months of rehabilitation after shoulder surgery in November last year, and has never finished five innings. He pitched 72 → 83 → 81.
In the top of the sixth inning, Bruceda Graterol voluntarily withdrew after complaining of hamstring pain with one out and runners on the first base, and Brent Haniwell, who took the mound, lost three runs due to timely hits by Castejanos and Sosa, widening the gap to 0-4.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, third baseman Teoscar Hernandez scored when Will Smith grounded out to the third base with one out, and the Dodgers made up for a point when Shohei Ohtani stepped down with a fly ball to the right field with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the seventh inning when the Dodgers was trailing 1-4. Ohtani was earlier withdrawn due to a grounder to the second base in the first inning, a fly to the left field in the third inning, and a straight hit to the second base in the fifth inning. He had no hit in four times at bat, dropping his batting average to 0.306 and OPS to 1.019, respectively.토토사이트 모음
In the top of the ninth inning, Philadelphia added two more runs with back-to-back home runs by Sosa and Schwarber.
The Dodgers ended its three-game winning streak with 66 wins and 48 losses. The gap with Philadelphia, which ranks first in the National League (67 wins and 46 losses), widened again to 1.5 games.