CHICAGO -- Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw has been so good for so long, it's easy to forget about how young he still is. It's also easy to understand why his teammates seemed as happy about the fact that Kershaw was going to the World Series as they were for themselves.
It was a day a long time coming in Los Angeles. On Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, behind a sterling outing from Kershaw, and an unbelievable three-homer explosion from Enrique Hernandez, the Dodgers hammered the Chicago Cubs 11-1 in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series and clinched their first pennant since 1988.