LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw , for the most part, is doing his best to avoid the sentimentality in all this. But he isn’t numb to it either. Lately, he’s been starting to notice the little things that he’s just now doing for the final time.

For instance: Last week, when Kershaw finished watching video of Blue Jays hitters, then finished poring over the numbers and had fully mapped out his gameplan … he exhaled. This thought popped into his mind:

“I just prepared for the Blue Jays,” Kershaw said at Thursday’s World Series media day. “The last scouting report I’ll ever have to do.”

An emotional moment?

“No, that one feels good,” Kershaw said, breaking into a wry grin. “No more homework.”

OK, so his final scouting report did not pull on Kershaw’s heartstrings. But this might: Kershaw

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