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- Updated: April 21, 2016
ATLANTA — You can learn a lot about a player by the way he handles adversity.
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw put on a clinic in that regard on Thursday afternoon, pitching eight innings of one-run ball and striking out 10 in L.A.’s 2-1, 10-inning win over the Atlanta Braves.
But it wasn’t as easy as it sounds. Consider that he gave up 10 hits — as many as he’d given up in his three previous starts combined.
“It was a weird day. You give up a bunch of runs and give up 10 hits — they say you got shelled. If you don’t give up a bunch of runs and give up 10 hits, you scattered it,” said Kershaw of his 43rd double-digit strikeout game and first career win at Turner Field in his final try. “It’s just a weird deal. You know, five hits in two innings — I just kind of turned the page after that. I really look at it as two games, almost.”
Kershaw allowed the first two hitters to reach in each of the first two innings, but he had help from the defense in getting out of jams both times. In the first, the Dodgers nabbed Braves second baseman Daniel Castro trying to stretch his RBI double into a triple. In the second, Chase Utley made a tremendous stab to start a 4-6-3 double play off the bat of Matt Wisler — a game-changing …
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