Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw on Game 2 assignment: ‘It really wasn’t an agree-or-disagree type thing’

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw has put himself on the line for the Dodgers every fall for the past five years, pitching on short rest, pitching in relief – memorably marching down to the bullpen in Game 5 against the Washington Nationals two years ago without his manager’s knowledge.
But when the Dodgers decided Monday evening to start Hyun-Jin Ryu in Game 1 of this year’s National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves instead of Clayton Kershaw, he got a phone