Clayton Kershaw made his first begin of spring coaching final week. Whereas he didn’t have one of the best outing on the planet, permitting three runs and 5 hits throughout three innings, it was his first time pitching shortly, and his introduction to the brand new pitch clock.
After the sport, Kershaw spoke in regards to the pitch clock, and stated he wasn’t having any points with it. Nevertheless, he did discover it to be a little bit of a distraction at occasions.
“Immediately wasn’t an issue. I didn’t actually have any points with it,” Kershaw stated. “I did discover myself taking a look at it lots. I don’t know if that’s a great factor or a foul factor. It clearly does take a little bit little bit of focus off what you’re doing if you’re trying on the pitch clock. I don’t know if I’m going to vary that or not, truthfully. I assume we’ll simply should see.”
It’s good to know that it wasn’t an issue for him, and he’ll solely proceed to get extra used to it as he pitches extra this spring and early this season.
It should be bizarre for somebody like Kershaw — who’s been within the league since 2008 — to now abruptly have to hurry up the way in which he’s been doing issues for, you realize, his complete life. However he didn’t have any pitch clock violations in his three innings of labor, and clearly, didn’t have any points going a bit quicker.
Whereas the outing wasn’t nice, his fastball was topping at 93 mph, which is a superb signal for Kershaw at this stage within the season. Final 12 months, his fastball averaged 90.7 mph, so if he can have a couple of extra ticks on it this 12 months, he may very well be much more dominant than he was throughout his All-Star marketing campaign final 12 months.
Kershaw is scheduled to pitch once more on Wednesday in opposition to the Colorado Rockies. First pitch for that one is 6:05 p.m. PST.
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