SEATTLE — It was one last batter. One last strikeout. One last ovation for a future Hall of Famer.
And it ended, fittingly, on one last swing-and-miss.
In the top of the sixth inning on Sunday afternoon, in the final regular-season outing of his illustrious 18-year career, Clayton Kershaw snapped off a trademark slider that ducked below the zone. Eugenio Suárez helplessly waved at it like so many others before him.
With that, Kershaw had his seventh strikeout of the day and the 3,052nd of his career. He had completed 5 u2153 scoreless innings en route to his 223rd career win, lowering his career ERA to 2.