LOS ANGELES -- One guy is peacefully departing, while the other is still raging against that good night and anyone left in his way.

That Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer both find themselves here, against each other, one more time -- impacting this 2025 World Series either through their performance on the mound or their presence off it -- is an appropriate conclusion to the connected professional baseball story of these two future Hall of Famers.

“We’ve been linked,” said Kershaw, “all the way through.”

“You know, same Draft class, everything,” Scherzer added. “It’s been awesome to compete against [Kershaw] my entire career, and we even got to be teammates [in 2021]. It’s been great going toe-to-toe, and it’s fitting for him to be at the end here and we get to face each other on the

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