Every once in a while, a big sports outlet lets out something that has fans in an uproar. Sometimes it’s funny, and sometimes it’s not. But Dodgers fans all had a good laugh this past week after Clayton Kershaw broke the franchise strikeout record.
It started when ESPN posted a graphic to congratulate Kershaw. Everything looked fine, except where the part where they called him The Claw. That nickname is listed on his Baseball-Reference profile for reasons that are far beyond me. But there isn’t a Dodgers fan out there that would call him that.
But it wasn’t just Dodgers fans that had caught on.