Saturday’s potential pitching duel between Logan Webb and Clayton Kershaw never materialized. Ace, past or present, was not the operative word to describe the manner or results of either arm. Neither starter recorded an out past the 4th inning. Kershaw was done after the 3rd, thanks in part to a 36-pitch 1st in which he gave up 4-runs — a first for the veteran in over 400 career innings pitched against San Francisco and owned a 1.69 ERA across 61 career games. Now that ERA has swollen to a ghastly 2.08 (ew!) — which would’ve been really fun to rag on and laugh about if not for the fact that the rest of the game happened.

What hurts most is not that the Dodgers won — worrying about preventing that from happening at least once in a series is foolhardy — it’s that the Giants let slip from th

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