WASHINGTON >> October has become the month of aces wild. Cole Hamels gets torched, Rick Porcello and David Price come up empty. It happened in 2015, too.
Clayton Kershaw needs no introduction to the trap doors that swallow up the best starting pitchers, at least the ones not named Madison Bumgarner. If you graded him on a curve in Game 1 — not his curve, but the way he compared to everything else — he was fine.
“If I had pitched a shutout for seven innings and we hadn’t won, it would have been a different feeling,” Kershaw said.