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- Updated: May 24, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Throughout his postgame interview Monday night, Clayton Kershaw kept the middle finger of his golden pitching hand dipped in a tiny cup with a solution he said makes the skin tougher.
As if Clayton Kershaw isn’t tough enough.
He had just pitched another in a series of masterpieces, a 102-pitch two-hitter in a 1-0 Dodgers win over the Reds, the lefty’s third shutout of the year moving him to 7-1. All three of those shutouts have come during his 5-0 May.
With those kinds of numbers, no wonder those around him gush with admiration.
“I wish I had 25 of him,” said Dave Roberts, a rookie manager lucky enough to have a three-time National League Cy Young Award winner for an ace. “Not only is he a pitcher of a lifetime, of a generation, but he’s a baseball player of a generation.”
Kershaw got a single, was robbed of another and ran like a madman on the basepaths. But most of all, he threw a complete game the day after his team went 17 innings and the bullpen threw 12 of them.
“It feels good to give them a day off,” Kershaw said. “It feels good to finish a game all the time, but …
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