BOSTON — Previous to Saturday evening, the one different time that 18-year-veteran Clayton Kershaw pitched at historic Fenway Park was in Sport 1 of the 2018 World Collection, an 8-4 loss.
His second journey to Boston’s 113-year-old ballpark, and presumably his final, resulted in the identical style, because the Dodgers fell, 4-2.
Kershaw struggled to place batters away, together with the primary three of the second inning, every of whom had two-strike counts earlier than reaching base, culminating in Jarren Duran’s two-run triple to tie the sport.
Within the fifth inning, a 10-pitch at-bat in opposition to Alex Bregman led to a single earlier than Roman Anthony doubled him house to place the hosts up 4-2 and ship Kershaw to the showers.
When the mud settled, the Los Angeles starter had logged solely 4 2/3 innings, his second straight begin of fewer than 5 frames, and he allowed six hits, 4 earned runs and two walks whereas placing out two.
Although the 37-year-old has not introduced his retirement, it will likely be two seasons earlier than Los Angeles returns to Boston, leaving a return look for the left-hander in critical doubt.
The Dodgers have been swinging heavy lumber early, demolishing Garrett Crochet choices everywhere in the ballpark. Shohei Ohtani led off the sport with a 414-foot house run to dead-center, his tenth leadoff shot of the season. Two batters later, Teoscar Hernández blistered a ball over every part in left area, 387 ft for a solo shot that put the Dodgers up 2-0.
Then the lights dimmed rapidly from the bats because the Pink Sox starter locked in and struck out 10 batters over six innings, permitting only one Dodger previous second base after the primary.
