During their three seasons as teammates, Zack Greinke played the right-handed complement to Clayton Kershaw at the front of the Los Angeles Dodgers starting rotation. Though, that’s no slight toward Greinke, but rather a result of Kershaw’s sustained dominance.
The former teammates and close friends went head-to-head for the first time Friday night, and Greinke again playing second fiddle to Kershaw. “After he didn’t have the great outing in Colorado, you knew someone was going to have to pay,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said following his club’s 7-1 victory.
Kershaw lost a no-hitter with one out in the fourth inning.