Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw won 12 of the season, winning six in a row.
Kershaw started in a home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks held at Dodger Stadium on the 30th (Korean time) and gave up 3 hits and 3 walks in 5 innings and led the team to a 9-1 victory with one run.
After returning from a shoulder injury, Kershaw, who continued to feel stable with 10 hits and 5 walks and 4 runs in 17 innings in 4 games, lowered his ERA from 2.52 to 2.48.
Kershaw has won six consecutive decision games since the game against the New York Yankees on June 3rd. The last time he suffered a loss was against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 22. That means they went 6-0 in 10 matches. The Dodgers recorded 15 wins and 5 losses in Kershaw’s starting games this year. It deserves to be called an ace.
It has been 6 days since the game against the Cleveland Guardians on the 24th. At that time, while Kershaw was fighting hard with 2 innings, 1 hit, 4 strikeouts and 1 run until the 2nd inning, a suspended game was declared due to rain, and he finished pitching as it was. The next day, Victor Gonzalez took the mound as the second pitcher, and the Dodgers then threw in five more pitchers to win the suspended game 6-1.
Kershaw had 42 strikes on 79 pitches. He threw 31 fastballs for a high of 91.3 mph and an average speed of 89.6 mph, along with 27 sliders, 15 curveballs, 5 changeups and 1 sinker. His fastball velocity was 1.6 mph less than his season average of 91.2 mph. However, he minimized his runs by thinning out 5 strikeouts at each hump.
Kershaw walked Tommy Pham and Christian Walker consecutively after two deaths in the top of the 1st inning, but he caught Lourdes Gurriel Jr. with a fly in center field and gave it no runs. In the 2nd inning, he caught Gabriel Moreno, the 1st and 2nd baseman, with a double hit by the 2nd baseman, and in the 3rd inning, he found stability with a three-way offense. In the 4th episode, he continued his momentum by putting Walker, Gurriel Jr., and Evan Longoria to rest.
Dodgers center fielder James Outman catches a batted ball by Lourdes Gurriel Jr. in the 6th inning. AP Yonhap News
Kershaw, who was a good pitcher, gave up a solo home run to Corbin Carroll in the top of the fifth inning, leading 6-0. Throwing a 73-mile curve outward on the 4th ball count 1B2S led to a mid-month home run. After two deaths, Ketel Marte was again in danger of conceding a run with a right-handed hit and a wild throw, but he threw a slider to Buddy Kennedy to strike out on a swing and met the requirements for a starter win.
Arizona starter Merrill Kelly took a whopping 12 hits and allowed 7 runs in 5 innings, leading to the loss. He allowed three walks and struck out only one. The 12 hits is Kelly’s most in a game, and the 7 runs are his second this season. With 10 wins and 6 losses in the season, the average ERA soared from 2.97 to 3.31.토토사이트
The Dodgers took the lead in the bottom of the first inning, scoring three runs with David Peralta’s right-hand double and Jason Heyward’s mid-month double from two out and first and third basemen. Then, in the second inning, lead Chris Taylor created scoring position with a walk and a stolen base, and then stepped on homepage when Miguel Rojas hit hard, and ran away 4-0. In the 3rd inning, he added 2 runs by combining 4 hits and an opponent’s error, and in the 5th inning, James Outman’s timely double hit widened the score to 7-1. put on
Betts, who entered the NL MVP competition in earnest, made a big success with 2 hits in 3 at-bats, 1 walk, 1 RBI and 2 runs, including a home run, with a batting average of 0.314 (154 hits in 490 at-bats), 36 home runs, 94 RBIs, 112 runs scored, and an OPS of 1.020.
The Dodgers, who had three consecutive victories, recorded 82 wins and 49 losses, firmly holding the lead in the NL West. Arizona fell to 3rd in the Western Division with 69 wins and 64 losses, and also fell to 4th in the wild card.