Los Angeles Dodgers hurler Clayton Kershaw is safe now. He won't suffer another agonizing playoff defeat at the hands of the Cardinals.

On Thursday he announced his plans to retire after this season. “We've talked about it a lot," he told reporters. "I'm at peace with it. I think it's the right time.

“I'm really not sad. I'm really not. I'm really at peace with this. It's just emotional. I tried to hold it together. I told our guys not to make it weird today because I was going to get weird if you make it weird. And here I am, making it weird.”

The Dodgers will return to the postseason this fall, but barring an unimaginable sequence of events, the Cardinals will miss the playoffs again.

So while Kershaw may be forever haunted by Matt Adams flashbacks, he will head into the sunset witho

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