Clayton Kershaw slows down Braves in series finale

playClayton Kershaw throws an unusually slow 46 mph pitch in the top of the fourth against the Braves. (0:15)ATLANTA -- The last thing the rest of the National League wants to see is Clayton Kershaw developing yet another pitch, but possible evidence of that very thing surfaced on Thursday.

In the fourth inning, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ staff ace threw what appeared to be an eephus pitch to the Atlanta Braves’ Tyler Flowers, a slow deliberate lob to the plate, although it was likely just a really slow curveball. The pitch was called a ball, but Kershaw ended the at-bat with a strikeout.

“I don’t know what that was,” Dodgers color commentator Orel Hershiser said on the broadcast as catcher…