"Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts defended teammate Clayton Kershaw after his outing against the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS. Game 3 ran away from the Dodgers after Kershaw came into the game, as the veteran allowed five runs on six hits while walking three through two innings. The left-hander has had his struggles during the postseason in his career, posting a 4.63 ERA through 40 appearances in October."
""We can't use two innings as - he's gonna have a statue in front of Dodger Stadium, so we have to kind of keep that in mind and understand that in the grand scheme of things, Kershaw is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, one of the best pitchers to ever do it," Betts said. "So if you let two innings kind of ruin that, then you don't know baseball.""
Mookie Betts publicly defended Clayton Kershaw after Kershaw allowed five runs on six hits and three walks over two innings in Game 3 of the NLDS versus the Philadelphia Phillies. Betts emphasized that two poor innings do not negate a career that will lead to Cooperstown, calling Kershaw a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Kershaw remains the active leader in ERA at 2.53 and is one of 20 pitchers with 3,000 strikeouts. Kershaw's postseason ERA (4.63 across 40 October appearances) is higher than his regular-season numbers, though he produced a strong 2.93 ERA over 30.2 innings in the 2020 World Series run.
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