King Kershaw has made three starts since his return from the DL with a lower back injury that forced him to miss five weeks. He has come back just in time with the playoffs right around the corner and the Dodgers desperately needing him with all their struggles recently.
The Dodgers were 2-1 in Kershaw’s three starts since his return and were 0-15 in all the team’s other games before Yu Darvish’s, and Alex Wood’s wins these last two games.
When Kershaw first went down the Dodgers continued to dominate for the first few weeks, but there is only so long you can keep up a winning pace like the one they were on without their best player.