Kershaw has 1.22 ERA in his last 11 starts, allowing 11 earned runs with 11 walks and 112 strikeouts. Yasmani Grandal quickly made an off-balance throw to nip Campbell at first.
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New York right fielder Curtis Granderson, who fell into an 0-2 hole leading off the seventh, laced a clean single to right to end Kershaw’s bid for the second flawless game in Dodgers history.
Bartolo Colon (9-9) allowed a run on five hits with four strikeouts over eight innings for the Mets, who have lost five of their last seven.
“There’s a lot of luck that has to happen to throw a flawless game”, Kershaw said. Kershaw had to settle for a three-hit shutout. “Once the seventh inning rolls around, it could be possible. Didn’t last very long”. The Mets had John Mayberry Jr., who entered the game with a. 170 average, batting cleanup.
Kershaw (8-6, 2.51) struck out 11 and walked none.
“I don’t compete against my teammates”.
“You’ve got to kind of refocus really fast”, Kershaw said.
“I’m trying to copy Zack, for sure”, Kershaw said. It’s been really fun to watch.
He added, “I think we have a responsibility to the fans to do as much as we possibly can to try to improve the team”. The Mets were all but helpless against the three-time Cy Young Award victor.
The shutout was the second for Kershaw in his last three starts. For the rest of the league a dominant Kershaw predicts as the great Clubber Lang once said: “Pain”.
“I threw a good pitch to Granderson”.
Greinke owns a major-league best 1.30 ERA and 117/21 K/BB ratio over 131 1/3 innings this season. The bases were loaded with no outs, when Alberto Callaspo was walked to bring in one run and then Yasiel Puig cashed in the other with a sacrifice-fly to take a 3-0 lead.
New York is 10 for 71 (.141) with runners in scoring position while going 2-5 since the All-Star break, scoring three runs or fewer six times.
Mets: Jon Niese takes the hill looking for his third win in four stars. The Brewers failed to score in the third after putting runners on first and third with no outs.
“To get back to pitch tomorrow would be, I’d say unrealistic, but we do feel like there’s a good chance he’d pitch this weekend”, Mattingly said.
NOTES: Dodgers RHP Zack Greinke’s pursuit of RHP Orel Hershiser’s consecutive scoreless innings record will be put on hold after his wife went into labor Thursday. Sunday’s scheduled starter, Brett Anderson, left his start on Tuesday with an irritated left Achilles tendon.
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Not helping New York’s cause is the continued absence of Michael Cuddyer, who wasn’t in the lineup for the 12th time in 19 games due to a knee injury. He received a different dose of anti-inflammatory medication Thursday, and the Mets still hope he will avoid the disabled list….
