Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television.
Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.
Clayton Kershaw’s legendary career officially comes to an end. 👏
⚾️ 2014 MVP
⚾️ 2011 Triple Crown
⚾️ 3x World Series champ ('20, '24, '25)
⚾️ Gold Glove Winner
⚾️ 3x Cy Young award winner
⚾️ 11x All-Star
Yoshinobu Yamamoto:
First pitcher to win 3 games in a single World Series since 2001 Randy Johnson
First pitcher with 3 road wins in a single WS
4th P to win G6+7 in a WS, joining ‘01 Johnson, 1946 Harry Brecheen, 1925 Ray Kremer — FIRST to do it on road
"I'll remember moments like this... I can't believe I'm getting to be in another World Series at Dodger Stadium."
Clayton Kershaw shared his emotions after the Dodgers' WILD 18-inning victory.
#WorldSeries | #Dodgers
Last night, Will Klein threw 7 less pitches than Max Scherzer - except one of them had a week to prepare for the workload, while the other came in around 10:30 pm w/ no defined ending.
Klein got 1 less out, allowed 3 less runs / 4 less hits and had 2 more K’s.
And one more WIN.
In each of the last 4 games, the Dodger pitching staff has:
allowed 1 or 0 runs
allowed fewer than 5 hits
allowed fewer than 5 walks
struck out 7+ batters
No other MLB team in the modern era has done that in 4 straight games at any point, regular season or postseason.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the second pitcher in MLB postseason history to give up a leadoff homer but allow no runs after that and toss a complete game.
The other was the Giants' Johnny Antonelli in Game 2 of the 1954 World Series.
Both allowed the homer on the first pitch.
Clayton Kershaw has made 449 starts and has just 96 losses
That’s 109 more starts than any other pitcher in MLB history with fewer than 100 losses
109 more chances to lose, and still, nope
There have been over 1,000 pitchers in MLB history to make at least 150 career starts.
Only one of them was more likely to deliver a scoreless start than he was to suffer a loss: Clayton Kershaw (101 scoreless starts, 96 losses as of now).
Let's take a moment to reflect on the greatness of Clayton Kershaw.
Here's where he ranks among all starting pitchers in the live-ball era (2,000+ IP):
ERA+ - first (154, tied with Pedro)
WHIP - first (1.02)
He's an all-time inner-circle Hall of Famer. What a career.