The indispensable man threaded through a crowd of Dodgers inside his dugout. He accepted their fist bumps and handshakes after eight innings of one-run baseball in a 5-1 victory over the Angels, his sixth of the season and the team’s eighth in the nine games he has taken the baseball. For a group adrift on days he does not pitch, on this roster Clayton Kershaw doubles as Atlas.
Kershaw evened the Freeway Series at one victory apiece and snapped a four-game Angels winning streak. He kept Mike Trout off the bases.