Anticipation consumed the better part of his past eight months and excitement colored the better part of his past few days. Then, in the third inning of his first start back at Dodger Stadium on Thursday, Clayton Kershaw encountered a sobering reality: two runs on the scoreboard, two runners on base, nobody out.
It triggered a familiar feeling: survival.
\"There\'s some part of it,\" Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, \"where you just default to having gone through that -- and it\'s not about your first start back, it\'s not about how you feel. It\'s about getting an out and getting out of that inning and minimizing damage. People that have been in those kinds of battles have that to fall back on. That was his only thought in that moment.\"
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