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- Updated: September 15, 2016
NEW YORK — The vintage Clayton Kershaw seems to be on the way for the Dodgers.
The ace left-hander got more trouble from Mother Nature on Wednesday than he did from the Yankees as he carved up the New York batting order through five scoreless, one-hit innings of a 2-0 Dodgers win at Yankee Stadium. If anything, the big obstacles were a pair of rain delays — in the middle of the fourth and fifth innings — that totaled 60 minutes. Kershaw, in only his second game back since returning from a long stint on the disabled list with a herniated disk in his lower back, came back after each.
He had retired all nine batters he’d faced and was coming out for the fourth when the first stoppage of play occurred. It lasted only 12 minutes, and he retired the Yanks in order in the fourth to take a perfect game into the fifth. During the second interruption — which lasted 48 minutes — Kershaw threw a simulated 16-pitch inning in a tunnel beneath the outfield stands. It kept him loose enough to go out and try to reach the approximate goal of 80 pitches for the day. Manager Dave Roberts said that if the delay had gone another 10 minutes, he would not have sent …
