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The eight-time All-Star will kick off the
Dodgers' efforts in the best-of-seven series as the starting
pitcher in Game 1 on Tuesday, capping a season that once
appeared in doubt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and enduring amid
a super-sized, 16-team playoff field.
"You know, the post-season's been in some aspects a little
harder with the extra round and things like that, it's been a
little bit more of a crapshoot with 16 teams making the
post-season," said the 32-year-old lefty.
"It's been a tough go, facing different teams in different
bubbles and different things like that," Kershaw told reporters
on Monday. "So to be able to win a World Series after all this
would be just as special as any other one, for sure."
Kershaw, who has spent his entire 13-season career in Los
Angeles, has twice seen World Series glory slip through his
fingers, with the Dodgers losing to the Boston Red Sox in 2018
and the Houston Astros in 2017.
The 2017 loss has almost certainly stung more in the wake of the
Astros' sign-stealing scandal, and the Dodgers were denied a
chance at revenge after the Rays ended Houston's run in a
seven-game ALCS saga.
But Kershaw said that the team was focused firmly on the future.
"Twenty-seventeen is over, we can't go back and worry about
that," he said. "All to say, this World Series against the Rays
is what we're prepared for now."
(Reporting by Amy Tennery; Editing by Michael Perry)
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