Philadelphia – How Clayton Kershaw The other day he completed his routine before the game and left the field in the Citizens Bank park, I asked him about his debut after the season. It was 17 years and 39 performances in the play -off ago, and yet Kershaw remembered it so well that he received his answer before I asked his whole question.
“I was in the pen,” Kershaw said. “Here.”
In the first year of the 2008 Dodders, two halls of fame were presented: Kershaw, and Greg MadduceIn his last year.
When DODERS Filled Phillis in a series of championships of the National League, Derek Lowe, Hiroki Kurod and Chad Billingley, and made reduction as starters. Kershaw and Madduce did not do this.
“He and I were both long guys,” Kershaw said. “This is madness, like a similarity.
“Where I am now, where he was. This is quite cool. “
For almost every player, baseball tells you when your career ended. Madduce, despite all his awards, was no exception.
In each of its last five seasons, its average value earned above 4.00, even when it broke at least 194 feeds in each of them. In his last stay with the Doders – seven starts at the end of the 2008 season – his era was 5.09.
Madduce knew that the postseson would be the end for him. He just did not tell anyone.
Greg Madduks advocates Doders against the giants of San Francisco at the Dodger stadium on September 19, 2008.
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In his last exit – in The game in which Phillis eliminated the dodge – Madduce was one of the six publishers of Dodeders. He worked in the fourth and fifth servings, left the embankment with dodges down five joggers and quietly asked the judge on the baseball plate at his exit.
“I have some kind of ball in my room”, Madduce said The Times In 2014. “It seems like we lost. But I knew that it was the last time I was going to put on shape. I had a privilege to wear it as much as I am. ”
Kershaw is a rare player who told baseball when his career ended. He announced his resignation last month, entering into force at the end of the season, even though he is still powerful.
His percentage of winnings 0.846 would lead to the Higher League if he had abandoned another 50 feedings. He still quit more taxes than someone on the duders, except Yoshinobu YamamotoAnd his 3.36 era was his third throughout the season. In his last start, he closed the champion of the American League of the West in Seattle Marins in the sixth Inning.
In the usual year, for the Dodgex, Kershaw begins in the play -off, because the usual year for dodge means that it dugs a bunch of talented jugs with the history of injuries and questions about strength, and then crossing their fingers and hopes that some will be healthy and effective time of the play -off.
In October last year, Doders ran short: Yamamoto, Jack FlartortyIN Walker Buler And four GROWS Games. In October of this year, almost miraculously, Dodders have five available starters with an era better than Kershaw: Yamamoto, Blake SnellIN Shohei OtaniIN Tyler Glaznov And Emmett ShihanField
Andrew FriedmanThe President of Doders on baseball operations admitted in some kind of trembling, telling the Hall of Glory that he would be sent to the GRD sequentially season.
“But, to the honor of Kersha, he in some ways stops this timidity, saying:“ Hey, I’m here to win, no matter what it is, ”said Friedman. “He loved to watch these guys compete. Obviously, he did very well this year.
“Usually, when the guy leaves, it looks like:“ Good, it's time. ” You can see this. And so he helped to simplify this conversation. ”
Kuvshin Doders Clayton Kershaw celebrates after he forces Gerard Encarnion San Francisco to join a double game at the Dodger Stadium on September 19.
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If Kershaw operates four taxes in October of this year, it will pass Madduce for sixth place in the list of innings of the postseson. If he submits the 5th of the presentation, he will become the fifth jug, who threw the 200 Innings of the postseson, joining Andy Petitte, Justin Verlander, Tom Goldin and John Smoltsa.
In the future, fans will turn over through Kershaw’s baseball card – or, therefore, look at their reference page of baseball – and find out that the greatest starter of his generation ended his career with relief.
Curiosity, at least, I suggested. Kershaw shrugged.
“Postseson is just a separate thing,” he said. “You just do everything you can. Where our team is with our starters, it makes sense.
“I think this is strange, but this is part of this.”
In him The debut of the postsesone Here, in 2008, Kershaw resigned the first five batteries, it was not bad when four of them were named Jimmy Rollins, Shein Victorino, Chasez Utley and Ryan Howard. In his final in this NLC 2008, Madduce received the last person whom he encountered, grounding: Cole Hamels – in the old days when the jugs were fighting.
Kershaw may not quit another step; Dodedes did not take on the obligation to use it in this round or keep it on the list if they are moving outside.
On Sunday I asked Doders manager Dave Roberts Whether Kershaw was here only in case the starter came out in a hurry, or the game fell into additional opportunities.
“I trust him,” Roberts said. “I think that there are other opportunities that he may have to do. But I also feel that there are other guys, whether it is paths or places that, how I feel, is more comfortable for us.
“This is not small on Clayton, but I think that there are various roles – up, down, early, later – I could use it.”
Dodedes uses starters, wherever they can: starting, removing, closing. Given the concern, the state of the GRD Dodgex, the idea that they cannot find a place to use Kershaw leaves only one question: seriously?
