Clayton Kershaw struck out seven and pitched scoreless baseball into the sixth inning in the final regular season start of his major league career, in the Dodgers’ 6-1 win over the Mariners on Sunday in Seattle to close out the regular season.
Kershaw allowed only four hits and a walk in Sunday’s series finale. He didn’t strike out anyone in the first inning but did induce a pair of popouts. Then Kershaw struck out at least one in each of the next five frames, with his seven strikeouts tied for his second-most in a start this season.
He faced only one batter in the sixth inning, and struck out Eugenio Suárez, finishing him off with an 85.5-mph slider for the final pitch of Kershaw’s regular season career. Freddie Freeman, who was already out of the game by this point, made the walk to th