In one clubhouse, Los Angeles Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw is preparing for the last game of a Hall of Fame career. <\/p>\n
Kershaw has handled just one at-bat in this World Series, inducing an inning-ending grounder in the 12th inning of a marathon Game 3. That would be a beautiful ending to his career, especially if there\u2019s champagne in his future tonight, but Game 7 demands all hands on deck. He\u2019ll be ready to go if called upon.<\/p>\n
Among Kershaw\u2019s bona fides on his surefire Hall of Fame resume: a 2.53 career ERA, 223 wins, 3,052 strikeouts, three Cy Young wins, an MVP award, a pitching Triple Crown, a Gold Glove, five ERA titles, 11 All-Star selections. All that remains is determining how many World Series rings he\u2019ll take into retirement.<\/p>\n
In the other clubhouse, there\u2019s a pitcher probably already pacing and pawing at the proverbial dirt. Max Scherzer is a madman on the mound, and he\u2019s taking the baseball in Game 7 hoping to deliver a vintage performance on the grandest stage. It\u2019s unknown whether the 41-year-old will continue to pitch beyond this season. But would there be a better way to bow out than to the roars of a red-hot Rogers Centre crowd as the Blue Jays capture their first World Series since Scherzer was 9?<\/p>\n
No, there would not.<\/p>\n
Scherzer\u2019s career accomplishments include a 3.22 career ERA, 221 wins, 3,489 strikeouts, three Cy Young awards, eight All-Star selections and two World Series rings. So far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one clubhouse, Los Angeles Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw is preparing for the last game of a Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-255409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}