"A little bit, yeah," Johnson said of the similarity. "But he's still higher than he was back then."
Today, Kershaw is an ace for the Los Angeles Dodgers, set to start Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Cubs on Saturday (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on FS1) with L.A. down 3-2 in the series and facing elimination. Johnson is the pitching coach for the University of Oklahoma.
Back then, Kershaw was a promising high schooler and Johnson was a junior college coach and friend of Kershaw's Draft advisor and now agent, J.