Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw on Friday picked up his 2,000th career strikeout, getting Milwaukee’s Jonathan Villar swinging in the bottom of the second inning.
It was Kershaw’s fourth strikeout of the game, and he was already at nine for the game through four innings.
Exactly where Kershaw ranks in terms of fastest to reach the milestone depends on the metric you use, but it’s pretty darn fest pretty much any way you look at it. He is second-fastest if you go by games pitched (277), according to Elias Sports Bureau, behind only Randy Johnson (262) and ahead of Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez.