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By Mark Lamport-Stokes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw on the mound, Los Angeles had banked on a sizzling start to their National League Division Series on a hot Friday evening but it was the New York Mets who drew first blood in the opener.
Three-time Cy Young Award winner Kershaw, looking weary after producing the good, bad and ugly with his pitching, exited the game in the top of the seventh before the Mets completed a 3-1 win in front of a shell-shocked crowd at Dodger Stadium.