Clayton Kershaw uses slider to smother Blue Jays

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Saturday marked the first time that Clayton Kershaw faced the Toronto Blue Jays. Based on what he did, they won’t be looking forward to the next time.

Kershaw continued his stretch of dominance, striking out 10 and walking none in seven innings in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 6-2 win at Rogers Centre.

For the fourth game in a row, Kershaw struck out 10 or more batters and walked one or none. He’s the second pitcher in baseball’s modern era (since 1900) to have at least four consecutive games with those numbers. The first was Stephen Strasburg, who had four games in succession last September.

Disregarding Kershaw’s accuracy and looking just at his strikeout numbers, the four games in a row with 10 or more strikeouts is the longest such streak in 2016. It’s the longest of Kershaw’s career, and the longest by a Dodgers pitcher since Hideo Nomo in 1995.

The key pitch

Nine of Kershaw’s 10 strikeouts were on his slider. That’s the most on his slider since …

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