Clayton Kershaw got one out in the World Series.
It will go down as one of the biggest in his life.
If the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ legendary lefty didn’t get that out, the Los Angeles Dodgers wouldn’t have been celebrating a repeat championship on Saturday night.
It was the 12th inning of Game 3, with the winning run on base, and Kershaw came in from the bullpen to get a groundout.
The Dodgers won that game in 18.
They won the World Series in seven.
Kershaw was never a sure thing to pitch in the World Series at all. He wasn’t in the pitching rotation at all.
Everyone knew he was retiring at the end of this. But could he get one more ring?
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The Dodgers used him in that key moment, and not any more.
Kershaw did get up in the bullpen during Game 7, but Yoshinobu Yamamoto finished the job, so all Kershaw had to do was sprint in from the bullpen and celebrate.
He goes into the history books as one of the greatest pitchers ever.
He’ll hang out in the Dodgers’ history books next so Sandy Koufax, right where he belongs.
Kershaw wasn’t always a hero in the postseason. That was the knock on him early in his career.
But on the last pitch Kershaw ever threw, he got one of the biggest outs of his life.
He’ll go down, properly, at the highest levels of baseball history.
