ARLINGTON, Texas — Seven months after Clayton Edward Kershaw was born in Dallas, Kirk Gibson impossibly limped around the bases and Orel Hershiser sang hymns to himself in the dugout in between mowing down the Oakland Athletics with the deftness of a diamond cutter. Eighteen miles and 32 years from his birthplace, Kershaw held his third child, Cooper, in his right arm on the infield at Globe Life Field Tuesday with a smile as wide as a generation.
Marianne and Christopher’s kid had won everything in the game but fulfillment. Three Cy Young Awards.