As Corey Kluber completed his no-hitter for the New York Yankees on Wednesday night, Clayton Kershaw was in the early stages of his own bid to potentially blank the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Kershaw wound up allowing a one-out home run in the fourth inning — and later a double — over his six innings of work. That Kluber turned in MLB’s second no-hitter in as many nights and sixth overall this season (excluding Madison Bumgarner’s unofficial no-no in seven innings), further raised alarm bells for Kershaw.
“Well it’s not good, I’ll tell you that,” he said of the six no-nos that already are in the books.