LOS ANGELES — At 3:28 p.m., Clayton Kershaw walked through the Los Angeles Dodgers’ clubhouse. Wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sneakers, the man who for a generation personified a franchise and carried the hopes of a city, went about his work one more time. Friday marked the last time he will ever start a regular-season game at Dodger Stadium, but the retiring Kershaw still, always, had his routine.

It was the routine centered around every fifth day that charted this path towards being perhaps the best pitcher of his generation. It was that routine that president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman urged every young pitcher who followed Kershaw to watch and to follow. Veterans and prospects alike turned to watch him, hoping to extract something repeatable. No one did it like Kershaw, f

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