Clayton Kershaw can’t match Garrett Crochet in Dodgers’ loss
Boston – Garrett Crochet came out of his jams on Saturday evening. Clayton Kershaw failed to do the same.
In the defeat of the 4-2 Dodgers against the Boston Red Sox, that was the difference-with hook, a Cy Young in-Prime candidate with a heavy fast ball and premium overall stuff, frustrating the dodgers by failing Baserunners and working in difficulty; And Kershaw, an aging left -hander who fought against command at the start, not often managing to escape the unscathed danger.
By making his first regular career start to the career in Fenway Park (he had previously launched here in the 2018 World Series), Kershaw seemed to fight his mechanics from the start. He delivered a strike in the first round to just five of his first 14 strikers. Worse, he couldn’t put the guys to put away when he arrived at two strokes.
He resulted in a second round of three points from the Red Sox (56-50), after Trevor Story worked a walk in mind, Carlos Narváez bypassed a double of the green monster, and Jarren Duran lacé a journey online towards the center which overcome the head of Andy Pages for a triple (Duran had another triple and a double later at night).
This led to more stress for Kershaw, 37, in the third, when he gave a pair of singles to lead the sleeve before obtaining a story with a double game and in Fanning with a cursor.
After that, Kershaw started to settle. He rediscovered his command, taking ahead of each of the last seven strikers he faced. He found the kind of rhythm that seized his 18th season surprisingly solid, withdrawing seven consecutive strikers while working in the fifth.
But with two withdrawals in this fifth round, the Slugger of the Red Sox, Alex Bregman, survived Kershaw in a blow of 10 steps, finally dominating on one through the inner field. Then, the starlet Recruit Roman Anthony brought him home with a double, Bregman capable of scoring a marble bang-bang game after the ball ricoche of the monster and bounded the pages in the center left.
The night of Kershaw ended there, a start of 4 in Manche and four points (which equaled the second most deserved points he authorized this year) which increased his average managed to 3.62.
And while the hook faced similar constraint levels, it never left the dodgers (61-44) to open a round.
The closest that the dodgers came was in the first. Shohei Ohtani started things with a Home Run to Deep Center, his 38th of the season and 10th at the top of the National League to lead a match. Teoscar Hernández followed with another solo shot two strikers later, clearing the monster in the left field to continue his recent marble push.
The star of Dodgers Shohei Ohtani runs the bases after hitting a home run during the first round on Saturday.
(Steven Senne / Associated Press)
After that, however, Crochet kept the dodgers in the stadium and blocked each of the other eight strikers who reached the base.
Unlike Kershaw, who has failed to limit the damage with his reduced speed and inconsistent execution of the interruptions, the hook has mastered the dodgers in each lever situation, preventing any other score with the help of 10 stick withdrawals – giving it a 175 of the MLB in the season.
The Dodgers did not help their cause along the way.
After the Home Run Run, a later first round rally passed when Freddie Freeman was thrown by trying to go from the first to the third basis on a single pages (the Dodgers challenged, with the manager Dave Roberts applauding the aggressiveness of Freeman of the Pirogue, but the call was maintained).
1 and 1 The Dodgers launcher, Clayton Kershaw, delivers during the first round on Saturday. 2 The launcher starting from Boston, Garrett Crochet, book during the first round on Saturday. (Steven Senne / Associated Press)
The Dodgers had two other rounds ending with withdrawals on the basics. Hernández was surprised stealing for the fifth final (on a tight game that the dodgers could have challenged if they had not burned it earlier in the game). Will Smith was shot down by trying to transform a single into a double in the seventh, after the hook exit.
But the most deflating moments came with Ohtani to marble. In the second and fourth, striker n ° 9, Hyeseong Kim, managed to distinguish the hook (surprising results given Kim’s recent difficulties and a left -wing confrontation on Left against the Red Sox Ace). But twice, Ohtani followed with end -of -round stick withdrawals, part of an evening that saw him descend three times in total.
The Dodgers gave themselves a late chance against the Red Sox closer to Aroldis Chapman, making the marble link after a march with two outings in the ninth of Esteury Ruiz.
The striker representing this attachment race: Mookie Betts, who was out of the departure training for a second right match after spending this week in Nashville after a death in his family.
But, just making his second trip to Fenway Park since he was treated from the Red Sox to the Dodgers in 2020, the former MVP brought a missed bishop night to a frustrating and appropriate conclusion, obtaining its ranking on a third strike called to set up a series of serial rubber on Sunday.
