3/21/2020

22 turned 32


Clayton Kershaw turned 32 years old on Thursday, 12 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he had won 1 MVP and 3 Cy Young awards, accumulated 169 wins and more than 2,400 strikeouts. You definitely can easily make a long list of Kershaw’s career achievements, but without World Series Championships. The Dodgers was 1 win shy of the world champion in 2017.

In 2017, Kershaw pitched 33 games (incl. postseason), 32 starts and 1 relief appearance. He got 433 swing and miss that season, 6 games even with at least 20 swing and miss. Below is the detail; there was 1 game data unavailable.   

Date
4-seamer
Slider
Curve
Changeup 
2-seamer
Total
2017-04-03
2
4
2
1
X
9
2017-04-08
3
6
X
X
X
9
2017-04-14
4
7
X
X
X
11
2017-04-19
6
10
5
X
X
21
2017-04-25
3
7
1
X
X
11
2017-05-01
6
2
X
X
X
8
2017-05-06
7
8
1
X
X
16
2017-05-12
5
9
X
X
X
14
2017-05-17
3
7
X
1
X
11
2017-05-23
4
10
7
X
1
22
2017-05-28
3
10
1
X
X
14
2017-06-02
3
9
8
X
1
21
2017-06-07
2
10
4
X
X
16
2017-06-13
1
8
1
X
X
10
2017-06-19
1
8
4
X
X
13
2017-06-24
4
9
4
X
X
17
2017-06-29
3
13
4
X
X
20
2017-07-04
4
12
3
X
X
19
2017-07-09
4
14
5
X
X
23
2017-07-18
1
13
4
X
X
18
2017-07-23
4
3
X
X
X
7
2017-09-01
Data not available on MLB website
13
2017-09-07
1
8
3
X
X
12
2017-09-12
1
9
1
X
X
11
2017-09-18
8
12
1
X
X
21
2017-09-24
6
7
1
1
X
15
2017-09-30
1
4
1
X
X
6
2017-10-06
5
2
2
X
X
9
2017-10-14
3
5
1
X
X
9
2017-10-19
3
3
5
X
X
11
2017-10-24
3
5
X
X
X
8
2017-10-29
3
1
X
X
X
4
2017-11-01
0
2
1
X
1
4

However, Kershaw did get a swing and miss in 2017 World Series game 5. It was against Altuve in the first inning, below is the pitch by pitch. It was also the only time the one and only Clayton Kershaw got only 1 swing and miss on his breaking balls in 2017.


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