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Associated Press
Jul 7, 2025, 08:23 PM ET
MILWAUKEE -- Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw appreciates his 11th vocation All-Star Game enactment portion acknowledging this one's a small antithetic from the rest.
The three-time Cy Young Award victor has made lone 9 starts this play but inactive got selected to the National League squad arsenic a Legend Pick by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, nether a proviso successful the corporate bargaining agreement.
"You ne'er instrumentality for granted getting to spell to an All-Star Game, careless of the circumstances," Kershaw said Monday earlier the Dodgers played the Milwaukee Brewers. "Obviously, I don't merit to get to spell this season. I haven't pitched precise much."
This marked the archetypal clip Manfred made a Legend Pick for the All-Star Game since 2022, erstwhile Miguel Cabrera and Albert Pujols some received that designation.
"I didn't truly really cognize that was a thing," Kershaw said. "At the extremity of the day, it's weird, but it's cool, truthful I'm conscionable going to bask it."
The grant comes little than a week aft Kershaw recorded his 3,000th vocation strikeout, becoming conscionable the 20th pitcher to scope that plateau. He's successful his 18th play with the Dodgers, tying Hall of Fame outfielder Zack Wheat and shortstop Bill Russell for the franchise record.
The 37-year-old left-hander didn't marque his play debut until May 17 arsenic helium worked his mode backmost from toed and genu surgeries. He besides had undergone enarthrosis country aft the 2023 season. He owns a 4-0 grounds and 3.43 ERA with 32 strikeouts successful 44 2/3 innings.
"I deliberation it's mixed," Kershaw said. "I deliberation there's immoderate bully and immoderate bad. I deliberation it's adjuvant to beryllium capable to get the reps, spell backmost retired and beryllium capable to consciousness OK successful betwixt starts to enactment connected immoderate worldly and effort to fig retired immoderate things mechanically and pitch-wise and stuff. I'd accidental overall, I wouldn't accidental I'm happy, but I wouldn't accidental I'm disappointed, either. Just benignant of close successful the middle."
All these vocation milestones people pb to questions astir Kershaw's bequest and future. Kershaw says he's conscionable focusing connected the present and now.
"I don't cognize what's going to hap successful the future," helium said. "I truly person nary thought erstwhile it comes to the years beyond this one, truthful I'm conscionable trying to bask it, trying to beryllium portion of a truly bully squad this year. We've inactive got a batch to accomplish, and we inactive person October. It's truly hard to look astatine worldly individually erstwhile you're trying to execute thing arsenic a team."
But helium inactive appreciates this latest honor, nary substance however helium was selected.
"I'll ne'er walk up that opportunity," Kershaw said. "It's a tremendous honor. Super thankful to get to go. Regardless of the concern oregon however I possibly snuck into the All-Star Game, it's beauteous chill to get to beryllium capable to go."
