SEATTLE — Clayton Kershaw tossed 5 1/3 scoreless innings within the ultimate regular-season begin of his 18-year main league profession and helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Seattle Mariners 6-1 on Sunday.
Kershaw (11-2) scattered 4 hits, three of them singles, and struck out seven, together with the final batter he confronted — the Mariners’ Eugenio Suárez. The 37-year-old left-hander turned to his slider within the prime of the sixth to retire Suárez for the three,052nd strikeout of his profession. He then left the sport to a standing ovation from a sellout crowd at T-Cell Park.
The Dodgers scored early and sometimes in opposition to Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller (4-6). Hyeseong Kim hit a two-run dwelling run within the second inning and Freddie Freeman added a two-run shot within the third.
After Miller departed , Los Angeles two-way star Shohei Ohtani hit his franchise-record fifty fifth dwelling run of the season. Andy Pages added an RBI single within the eighth inning to finish the Dodgers’ scoring.
Seattle slugger Cal Raleigh went 1 for 3 in his regular-season finale, ending with 125 RBIs and a significant league-leading 60 homers.
The NL West champion Dodgers (93-69) received 5 fewer video games than final 12 months, whereas the AL West-winning Mariners (90-72) received 5 extra video games.
Seattle drew 2,537,817 followers this season, simply shy of its 2024 complete of two,555,813.
Key second
With two away in a scoreless contest, Kim turned on an elevated fastball from Miller and despatched it into the right-field seats for the third dwelling run of the rookie’s main league profession.
Key stat
Ohtani’s fifty fifth dwelling run topped the single-season file he set in 2024 for the Dodgers, his first season with the franchise. He additionally topped 100 RBIs for the third time in his MLB profession.
Up subsequent
The Dodgers will face the Cincinnati Reds in Sport 1 of the NL Wild Card collection on Tuesday.
The Mariners will tackle the winner of the first-round collection between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians within the AL Division Collection beginning Saturday.
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