Clayton Kershaw will pitch for the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic, nearly four months after announcing his retirement following a 18-season major league career, all with the Dodgers, USA Baseball announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kershaw announced Sept. 18 he would retire at the end of the season. His final appearance with the Dodgers came in Game 3 of the World Series, relieving Emmet Sheehan with the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the 12th inning and the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays tied, 5-5.<\/p>\n
Kershaw induced Nathan Lukes to ground out to second baseman Tommy Edman on eight pitches, preserving the tie in the game won by the Dodgers 6-5 on Freddie Freeman’s home run leading off the bottom of the 18th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kershaw has not pitched in the World Baseball Classic. He was selected for the U.S. roster for the 2023 tournament, but had to withdraw due to insurance issues.<\/p>\n
Kershaw has played for one U.S. national team. He was a member of the 2005 18U national team that finished second in the Pan American Championships.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.S. is set to begin play in the World Baseball Classic March 6 against Brazil at Daikin Park in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clayton Kershaw will pitch for the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic, nearly four months after announcing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5138,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-415236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}