Clayton Kershaw will not pitch for the Dodgers in playoffs as a result of massive toe harm

Clayton Kershaw, sidelined since late August with a toe harm, will not pitch once more this season for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“That is it for Clayton for 2024,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated Saturday earlier than Sport 1 of the Nationwide League Division Sequence between the Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

A 36-year-old left-hander, Kershaw is a three-time Cy Younger Award winner and 10-time All-Star. He did not pitch till July 25 after having offseason shoulder surgical procedure. He went on the injured listing Aug. 31 with a bone spur in his left massive toe.

“Clayton has carried out all the things he can to maintain this factor transferring ahead and giving himself an opportunity to take part within the postseason,” Roberts stated. “However the place he is at proper now, bodily, the foot, the toe simply shouldn’t be cooperating. It is really getting worse.”

Kershaw had been left off the Dodgers’ NLDS roster earlier Saturday earlier than Roberts confirmed that his season was over.

He was 2-2 with a 4.50 ERA in seven begins.

Due to his toe, Kershaw could not pitch the best way he needed to and different areas of his physique had been overcompensating for it.

He stated he is been assured by medical doctors that he would not want surgical procedure.

“It is one thing that takes time I suppose, which is the worst factor as a result of I am not good at that,” Kershaw stated final week. “My arm, I am retaining it going the very best I can. I actually suppose when my toe is best, I shall be able to pitch. I have to get near 100% so I can throw.”

He had been desirous to redeem himself after final 12 months’s beautiful postseason debacle. Kershaw bought hammered by Arizona in Sport 1 of the Nationwide League Division Sequence, giving up six hits and 6 runs within the first inning.

His postseason ERA is 4.22 over 194 innings pitched. His regular-season ERA of two.48 is the very best of any MLB pitcher with no less than 1,500 innings pitched since 1920.

Kershaw signed a one-year contract in February plus a 2025 participant choice price $5 million.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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