Clayton Kershaw will pitch for the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic, nearly four months after announcing his retirement following a 18-season major league career, all with the Dodgers, USA Baseball announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kershaw announced Sept. 18 he would retire at the end of the season. His final appearance with the Dodgers came in Game 3 of the World Series, relieving Emmet Sheehan with the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the 12th inning and the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays tied, 5-5.<\/p>\n
Kershaw induced Nathan Lukes to ground out to second baseman Tommy Edman on eight pitches, preserving the tie in the game won by the Dodgers 6-5 on Freddie Freeman’s home run leading off the bottom of the 18th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kershaw has not pitched in the World Baseball Classic. He was selected for the U.S. roster for the 2023 tournament, but had to withdraw due to insurance issues.<\/p>\n
Kershaw has played for one U.S. national team. He was a member of the 2005 18U national team that finished second in the Pan American Championships.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.S. is set to begin play in the World Baseball Classic March 6 against Brazil at Daikin Park in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clayton Kershaw will pitch for the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic, nearly four months after announcing his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":518424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2442,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-518423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115900322090690251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}