In his last two starts, including Tuesday's 6-3 loss to the Miami Marlins, Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has seen the velocity on his fastball dive.
It was the same high wind-up. The same right leg kick. The same over the top delivery.At 35 years old, Kershaw long ago lost the mid-90s mph life his fastball used to boast. In his last two starts, however, his velocity readings have tanked to near-career lows — reviving sudden questions about a lingering shoulder injury that, after costing him all of July, is threatening to impact his performance for the rest of the campaign.
After averaging a season-low 89.6 mph with his fastball last week, Kershaw’s four-seamer was sitting at 88.4 mph Tuesday, failing to eclipse 90.0 mph with even a single pitch according to MLB’s Baseball Savant system.He gave up only three runs in five innings, despite yielding five hits and matching a season-high with five walks. He got a couple key double-plays, and had the Dodgers up by one entering the fifth, seemingly poised to earn a second-straight winning decision.
And while the Dodgers loss wasn’t sealed until the eighth — when reliever Ryan Yarbrough gave up back-to-back homers in what had been a tied game — it was Kershaw’s declining stuff that set off the loudest alarm bells for their season.
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