Clayton Kershaw will return for the Dodgers and with him, he will bring his 1-4 record with a 2.86 ERA. While that ERA is pretty high for Kershaw’s standards, it is a number that will surely drop as long as Clayton is fully recovered from his biceps tendonitis. Perhaps the aspect of Kershaw’s game that the Dodgers missed the most was his ability to eat innings.
When Kershaw is on the mound it’s almost automatic that he is going to go at least six innings and most of the time he will complete seven innings. Ross Stripling and Kenta Maeda have done an excellent job of eating innings while Kershaw was on the DL but outside of those two, the other starting pitchers like Alex Wood and Brock Stewart have struggled to give the Dodgers many innings.