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Ellen Kershaw, family life keep Dodgers' ace grounded during trials of season

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The phone couldn’t update her fast enough.

Ellen Kershaw, wife of pitching ace Clayton Kershaw — a.k.a. the most important person to the Dodgers’ most important person — was aboard a Los Angeles-bound flight from Florida in July when her husband made his second post-All-Star-game start.

She was checking the game’s progress when she saw that Clayton had been pulled after the second inning.

“To not know what was going on and not be able to get a hold of him to know if he was sick or hurt or whatever was going on, there were definitely butterflies in my stomach,” she recalled a few weeks later.