Can Dodgers avoid pushing Clayton Kershaw into 7th inning?
LOS ANGELES — During October, the seventh inning is the spot in a haunted house where the machete-wielding zombie jumps out.
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw has pitched into the seventh inning in nine of his 15 postseason starts. He has recorded 18 outs in those seventh innings – and been charged with 17 runs, avoiding the machete and putting up a zero just three times.
It’s the kind of history that should make a manager think long and hard about sending Kershaw out for the seventh
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