LOS ANGELES — For the 228th and final time during the regular season at Dodger Stadium, on Friday Clayton Kershaw will make one more start in front of the home fans, pitching for the Dodgers against the Giants.

The decision to retire wasn’t sudden, but rather the product of conversations between Kershaw and his wife Ellen, who is pregnant with the couple’s fifth child.

“Usually we wait until the offseason to make a final call, but I think almost going into the season we kind of knew that this was going to be it. I didn’t want to say anything, unless I changed my mind,” Kershaw said Thursday at Dodger Stadium. “Over the course of the season, how grateful I am to have been healthy, be out on the mound, and be able to pitch, I think it just made it obvious this was a good sending-off point.

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