LOS ANGELES — By the end, was there any emotion left?

Friday in Los Angeles was, barring a Clayton Kershaw postseason appearance in The Ravine, the last home game to be celebrated as “Kershaw Day.” That’s been the way Dodger fans have marked time over most of the last 18 seasons, the implication being that on any day the ace was scheduled to take the mound, life held unimaginable promise.

Even if he was no longer unquestionably the ace.

At 37 his stuff is diminished, and as the late Don Sutton used to put it, he is instead dazzling ’em with his footwork. And though Kershaw often has pitched with clinical effectiveness in 2025 – and was, for a change, healthy late in a season – there seems to be uncertainty over the role he’ll assume in the postseason, on a starting staff that is both

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