TORONTO -- His legendary career -- one of the great careers in baseball history -- had reached its storybook conclusion. The Dodgers had won a second consecutive World Series in extraordinary fashion. And the only person at Rogers Centre who didn’t seem to know was Clayton Kershaw .

Mookie Betts had turned a dramatic double play to end Game 7, an utterly insane 5-4 Los Angeles victory in 11 innings. The Dodgers began pouring out of the dugout to celebrate. But Kershaw, who was warming up in the right-field bullpen, didn’t have time to keep tabs on the situation. He thought there were two outs.

“Honestly,” a shirtless and beer-soaked Kershaw said afterward, “I didn’t know. … [Bullpen catcher Josh Bard] looked at me and said, ‘We just won the World Series,’ and I was like, ‘Are you s

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