{"id":867319,"date":"2026-08-25T01:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:32:23","slug":"clayton-kershaw-to-serve-as-analyst-for-dodgers-showdown-with-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867319\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton Kershaw to serve as analyst for Dodgers\u2019 showdown with Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar face will join the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 local broadcast this week.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Kershaw, the newly retired franchise icon and three-time Cy Young winner, will be in the booth for SportsNet LA alongside Joe Davis for Tuesday\u2019s game against the Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers announced.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark Kershaw\u2019s first time on the club\u2019s network in an official capacity. Orel Hershiser will be on the call with Davis for the final two games of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw has appeared twice as part of NBC\u2019s first-year \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d coverage, both in Dodgers games. Kershaw served as a sideline analyst for the team\u2019s Opening Day contest against the Arizona Diamondbacks and on Aug. 2 against the Boston Red Sox. This time, he will team with Davis, who was the voice for several memorable moments of the longtime left-hander\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>The two have a natural banter, as Kershaw\u2019s in-game interviews from the dugout as a player were fan favorites, partially because of Kershaw\u2019s strong insights.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time World Series champion retired after the 2025 season, finishing an 18-year career spent entirely as a Dodger, the longest tenure for a player in franchise history. Kershaw was warming in the bullpen when Yoshinobu Yamamoto induced the title-winning double play last November in Toronto, and declared immediately afterward that he didn\u2019t see any official jobs in his future.<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7153009\/2026\/03\/27\/clayton-kershaw-dodgers-special-assistant\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rejoined the Dodgers as a special assistant in March<\/a>. He has continued to watch games from his home in Texas, where he has spent time with his wife, Ellen, and five children.<\/p>\n<p>The new job has offered flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a freedom with retirement,\u201d Kershaw said in March. \u201cIf you don\u2019t want to work out, you don\u2019t have to. If your back hurts, it doesn\u2019t matter. If your arm hurts, it doesn\u2019t matter. You get to see a lot more stuff, be around for everything. So there\u2019s a lot of great parts. It doesn\u2019t take away from how special playing this game is, but there\u2019s a lot of really awesome parts about being home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has still been around enough to lend the Dodgers a hand or, on Tuesday, his voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar face will join the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 local broadcast this week. Clayton Kershaw, the newly retired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,1187,591,85],"class_list":["post-867319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867319","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=867319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}