Clayton Kershaw continued to cement his place as one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise, and perhaps all of Major League Baseball, on Tuesday. Not only did he improve to 10-0 in the regular season against the New York Mets, he also moved into 44th place on the all-time strikeouts leaderboard.
Kershaw’s five strikeouts against the Mets gave him 2,451 on his career, passing former New York Yankees and Houston Astros pitcher Andy Pettitte, who finished with 2,448.
Pettitte became one of the faces of the late 1990s Yankees dynasty and a member of the “Core Four” along with Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada that helped carry the Yankees across two decades of success.