It was a packed house on Saturday night against the Tigers. Dodgers fans always fill up the stadium on weekends, but this was an extra special game. There wasn’t a person there that didn’t know that Clayton Kershaw was pitching towards history.
Kershaw entered the game with 2693 career strikeouts. That was just 3 short of Don Sutton’s franchise record. The only difference was that Sutton did that in parts of 16 seasons with the Dodgers. That came from 1966-1980 and then again in 1988. He also needed almost 200 games more than Kersh.
But pitching in his 15th season and 383rd game, Kershaw passed Sutton.