LOS ANGELES — An evening that began with Clayton Kershaw’s emotional farewell address ended with what the Dodgers left-hander said he will miss the most when he retires at the end of this season, his 18th in the big leagues – “the feeling after a win, celebrating with [the] guys.”

The Dodgers got another strong start from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, survived a harrowing seventh inning from their shaky bullpen and somehow managed to defeat the San Francisco Giants, 2-1, on Thursday night despite issuing 10 walks.

The win pushed the Dodgers’ National League West lead to three games over the San Diego Padres with nine games to play and reduced their magic number to clinch the division title to six. The Giants fell three games behind the New York Mets for the third and final NL wild-card spot.

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