Matt Adams Homer Ended Clayton Kershaw's Night in NLDS Game 4
By Mike Cardillo
Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers might want to petition baseball to eliminate the seventh inning of playoff games, at least against the St. Louis Cardinals anyways. The lefty ace was rolling in Game 4 and hadn’t allowed a run until the seventh inning. Kershaw gave up up two straight singles to start the inning followed by a three-run homer by Matt Adams to chase him from the game and put the Cardinals ahead 3-2.
The Cardinals have scored 13 of their 16 runs in the NLDS during the seventh inning, including eight in a Game 1 comeback last week — a game also started by Kershaw.
St. Louis is on the brink of its fourth straight NLCS, while the Dodgers face all sorts of offseason questions.