In the 20 or 30 minutes after the Los Angeles Dodgers put a beating on the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday night, what came next was a laugh or two, as the reality of what had happened had long been worn, celebrated, grieved for, retotaled, whatever normally takes four hours to sort through and bury.
The Dodgers said Clayton Kershaw, scratched from Tuesday night’s start because of back spasms, would start in Thursday’s Game 4. That, of course, was assuming he woke up feeling 32 and not 62, as the Dodgers chart the long game in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.