Hernández: Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw is tasked with gaining back World Series’ momentum in Game 5
The Dodgers made two defensive gaffes on Brett Phillips’ two-out single in the ninth inning, allowing two runs to score for an 8-7 Rays win that ties the World Series at two games each.Advertisement
“When you’ve been working so long and so hard for one goal and it’s getting closer and closer with each win, it’s hard not to think about the end game and what that might be like,” Kershaw said. “But you just have to [stay in the moment]. It’s too hard to think in the future when you have a great team that you’re playing against.”
His slider was the key that night against the all-or-nothing Rays lineup, accounting for 35 of his 78 pitches and producing 11 swings and misses.But in this modern version of baseball, the second time facing an opponent is never as easy as the first. The Rays now have an idea of how he will attack them. They know how his slider breaks and how his curveball tumbles.
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