Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw came into his season finale needing six strikeouts to pass Cy Young for 24th place on the all-time leaderboard. Instead, he got nine, leaving Mr. Young in the dust.
After the game, SportsNetLA’s Kirsten Watson brought up Kershaw passing the guy for whom the best pitcher award is named, and all he wanted to talk about was America’s Stepdad™ Tyler Anderson, who finished the season with one more strikeout than Kershaw (138 to 137).
“I know, but T.A. had more than me,” Kershaw joked. “He had one more, so that was really all I was going for, I was trying to catch T.