On Friday night the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres played a nine-inning game that ran four hours and 11 minutes long. The encore was a more tidy three-hour, 26-minute affair, but featured its own oddities.
Clayton Kershaw threw 96 pitches and scattered four hits over seven scoreless innings. He returned to the mound in the bottom of the eighth and surrendered a leadoff home run to pinch-hitter Ryan Schimpf.
Kershaw proceeded to walk Manuel Margto and Wil Myers, with a strikeout sandwiched in between. He was overrun by emotion, a little too much Kershaw surmised, and was removed after throwing a season-high 118 pitches.