Clayton Kershaw pitched five innings of one-run ball, striking out six and retiring the last 14 batters he faced to earn a fifth consecutive victory. The Dodgers' offense answered Cincinnati's first-inning run, seized the lead in the fourth and steadily wore down the Reds' pitching staff en route to a 6-3 win. The victory moved the Dodgers to 76-57 and kept them alone atop the National League West. Kershaw worked on four days' rest to set up Shohei Ohtani, mixed an 88-mph fastball, a slider that generated five whiffs, a curveball and a splitter, and finished a 72-pitch outing with only four hard-hit balls and none above 100 mph.
Clayton Kershaw continued his renaissance season, pitching five innings of one-run ball to earn a fifth-consecutive victory (his longest such streak since the end of the 2022 season). The offense steadily wore the Reds' pitching staff down, answering a first-inning Cincinnati run with one of their own before taking the lead for good in the fourth. And it all added up to a third-straight win for the Dodgers ( 76-57), keeping them alone in first place atop the division.
The left-hander was pitching on four days' rest for the third time this season (more than anyone else on the team), so that Shohei Ohtani could be lined up to start ahead of an off day on Wednesday. And early on, the Reds (68-65) tagged him with a quick run, after Spencer Steer led off with a double and later scored on Miguel Andújar's groundout.
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