With three National League Cy Young Awards on his resume, Clayton Kershaw doesn't need to measure his success with a radar gun.
But that doesn't mean the Los Angeles Dodgers' left-hander didn't take note of hitting 94 mph in his last start, his best velocity in two years.
He'll look for that velocity again Thursday when the Dodgers wrap up a two-game series in Seattle.
"(Velocity is) not everything, but I knew it was in there. I think that's what was frustrating," Kershaw told reporters recently. "The last couple of years, it's been hard to figure out why it's not coming out the way I wanted it to.