Not a replay, just painfully close. Clayton Kershaw near brilliant for six innings, then tiring in the seventh. The Dodgers' offense never getting it going. The bullpen faltering. The big hit, big play, never arriving.
And the loss, the much too familiar loss.
This time it added up to a 3-1 loss to the Mets in Game 1 of their National League division series on a 90-degree Friday night before a Dodger Stadium crowd of 54,428, a stinging defeat in the best-of-five series.
As good as Kershaw was Friday -- and he was very, very good -- he was outpitched by New York’s Jacob deGrom, who matched Kershaw early and then simply outlasted him.