Clayton Kershaw had been on the disabled list only once in his distinguished nine-year Dodgers career before being shelved by a herniated disk in his lower back last week, the left-hander sitting out six weeks early in 2014 because of a muscle strain in his upper back.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner was not a very good patient then, and he knows he won’t be now.
“I’m going to be very impatient and try to pitch tomorrow,” Kershaw said before Saturday night’s game. “The DL [stinks]. There’s no getting around it; it’s awful.