Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw’s back, after climbing on his for years

CHICAGO — The comparisons have never been completely fair or half as clever as some might have thought.
Not the Sandy Koufax comparisons that have followed Clayton Kershaw. He has largely lived up to those. But the Peyton Manning comparisons – you know the ones.
Both Kershaw and Manning are among the best to ever play their relative positions, superb season after season. But their biggest moments didn’t often come in their biggest games. So it became Clayton Manning or Peyton K