{"id":36086,"date":"2022-08-05T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dodgers-clayton-kershaw-hurt-but-mookie-betts-helps-sweep-away-giants\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:52:42","slug":"dodgers-clayton-kershaw-hurt-but-mookie-betts-helps-sweep-away-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dodgers-clayton-kershaw-hurt-but-mookie-betts-helps-sweep-away-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw hurt, but Mookie Betts helps sweep away Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Dodgers allowed only ten runs in a four-game sweep of the Giants, the first such sweep for Los Angeles in San Francisco since July 1-4, 1977. Mookie Betts and Trea Turner homered in the Dodgers’ 5-3 win on getaway day Thursday afternoon, but Los Angeles also lost Clayton Kershaw to a back injury.<\/p>\n
Kershaw allowed two runs, one of them earned, in four innings, both runs coming on a two-run home run for JD Davis, San Francisco’s main trade-deadline acquisition. Davis hit a changeup, just the 11th thrown by Kershaw all season, and only the third put into \u2014 or, in this case, out of<\/em> \u2014 play.<\/p>\n Mike Yastrzemski finished off the third inning with a flyout to shallow center, marking the 10,000th batter Kershaw faced in the regular season in his career. But Kershaw faced only three more batters, walking off the field with head trainer Thomas Albert during warm-up pitches in the fifth. <\/p>\n The Dodgers announced later in the game that Kershaw exited with low back pain.<\/p>\n The top of the fourth inning featured each team making a choice that made sense in context but ended up not working out. After Joey Gallo got his first hit as a Dodger, a shift-busting grounder through the vacated third base side of the infield, Gavin Lux doubled to right field. Gallo was sent home by third base coach Dino Ebel, only to be cut down by a throw from Mike Yastrzemski and perfect relay from Wilmer Flores.<\/p>\n There were no outs when Ebel sent Gallo, but you also have to factor in Cody Bellinger and James Outman were due up next, and that the Giants defense has been terrible all season, one of the drivers of their sub-.500 record. Don’t believe me? Just ask Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic, who has watched San Francisco not make plays all season.<\/p>\nDecisions, decisions<\/h3>\n