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Safe to say Kershaw will be a HOFer.  If my BBRef research is correct, as it stands now, he will have the highest postseason ERA  of any HOFer with at least 5 postseason starts..... by a lot.  And will have the second most PS starts.  Pretty crazy glitch in Kershaw's great career.
As it stands:
                  ERA.       GS
Kershaw.   4.49         32
B.Grimes   4.29         7
Kaat           4.01         5
Morris        3.80        13
Sutton        3.68        14

...and to top it off, on the other side, the HOFer with the best PS ERA is fellow Dodger legend Koufax with 0.95 in 7 GS.  Regular season twins but postseason polar opposites.

It was painful to watch last night. I keep hoping he pulls a Bonds or ARod where his past futility is finally busted through and has and outstanding PS. That was not the way to do it. Though I do question why Costas was so down on the Dodgers last night. Yeah, it was a great game for the DBacks, but Costas treated it liked the Dodgers were going down 2-0 in the series.

Edit: Forgot DS was only 5 games now.

Costas is an a**! 

As a Braves fan I am delighted to see this! 😈

It's funny as a Dbacks fan I thought Costas was making tons of excuses for the Dodgers.  Lots of perspective.  It was painful to watch Kershaw even as I was excited for Arizona.

I was thinking about the coaching decision to put him out there in Game 1.  One of the jobs of the coach is to put players in a position to succeed.  Kershaw's playoff yips are no secret, over 30 starts.  That's no small sample size. On the other hand, LA doesn't seem to have other options.  I though about Lynn, but his playoff history is actually worse and they're aren't many other options that have much experience at all.  I guess the other options were start the rookie or bullpen game.  Tough call.  Crazy a team with this much $ and playoff history seems to have so few options.      

Don't get me wrong, I bleed Dodger Blue. Kershaw has accomplished some amazing things during the regular season over the course of his career and he is one of the Dodgers best pitchers ever, but come October, he lives up yet again to my nickname for him: Mr. Mediocre, the Post Season Choker.