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Clayton Kershaw surprised everyone on Thursday morning with what appeared to be an eephus pitch, floating the ball home at a whopping 46 MPH to Braves’ catcher Tyler Flowers in the bottom of the fourth inning of the series finale.
Without any knowledge of Kershaw’s intent, Orel Hershiser, SportsNet LA’s color analyst, tried his best to explain what he saw after the pitch was thrown.
“I don’t know what that was,” Hershiser said. “He might have thought that this guy [Flowers] is hitting everything, fastball in, fastball away, breaking balls from righties on the black.