{"id":465060,"date":"2023-10-07T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465060"},"modified":"2023-10-07T03:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T07:23:47","slug":"clayton-kershaw-will-play-in-the-playoffs-despite-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clayton-kershaw-will-play-in-the-playoffs-despite-shoulder-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton Kershaw will play in the playoffs despite shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Kershaw will participate in the upcoming playoff games against the Arizona Diamondbacks, starting on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think at times maybe in the past I had a fear of failure and didn&#39;t want to go out there and fail. I think now it&#39;s just a lot more positive.. the nerves are from an excitement to pitch in the playoffs.&quot; Hear from Clayton Kershaw ahead of tomorrow&#39;s start. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Postseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Postseason<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k57bKo2I2t\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k57bKo2I2t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsNet LA (@SportsNetLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsNetLA\/status\/1710438367555617162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The veteran has been on the injured list ever since August 10 and the team has been cautious about bringing him on &#8211; he has never featured in more than 5 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of his shoulder injury has never been revealed, but now both he and the team seem to have shrugged it off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a survivor, he\u2019s a competitor,\u201d Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cHe just wills himself to great performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 35 Kershaw might be approaching his last postseason outing and he is not ready to let go off the opportunity so easily.<\/p>\n<p>He has never been as clinical as his regular season outing, but the Dodgers will still count on Kershaw as they have been hit with plenty of injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Kershaw will participate in the upcoming playoff games against the Arizona Diamondbacks, starting on Saturday. &quot;I think at times maybe in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465063,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20884,17101],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[20885,18925],"acf":{"announce":"The Dodgers man has pushed his way through despite the discomfort","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465062,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465060\/revisions\/465062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465060"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465060"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}