Jul 2, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Chicago White Sox outfielder Austin Slater (15) celebrates a two run house run through the third inning in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Obligatory Credit score: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Photographs The Los Angeles Dodgers had a full evening Wednesday, watching Clayton Kershaw document his 3,000th profession strikeout whereas Freddie Freeman capped a three-run ninth-inning rally with a game-ending single in a 5-4 victory over the visiting Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.
Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani additionally drove in rund for the Dodgers within the ninth. Ohtani scored the game-winning run, whereas Will Klein (1-0) earned his first win for the Dodgers.
Kershaw struck out three batters to complete the evening with precisely 3,000, setting down Vinny Capra trying on a slider to finish the highest of the sixth inning. The milestone strikeout got here on Kershaw’s final batter of the sport and on his season-high one centesimal pitch. He gave up 4 runs on 9 hits.
Will Smith and Andy Pages hit house runs for the Dodgers, who gained for the eighth time of their final 9 video games.
Austin Slater hit a two-run house run for the White Sox, whereas Sean Burke gave up one run on six hits over six innings.
Los Angeles third baseman Max Muncy left the sport simply earlier than Kershaw’s milestone strikeout within the sixth inning when he injured his left knee. The White Sox’s Michael A. Taylor additionally departed after the play with a shoulder damage.
With anticipation excessive for Kershaw to succeed in his milestone, the White Sox took some air out of the constructing by taking a 1-0 lead within the first inning on an RBI single from Andrew Benintendi. The Dodgers tied the sport 1-1 within the first on Smith’s house run, his eleventh.
The Dodgers went up 2-1 within the second when Pages hit his seventeenth house run.
Chicago grabbed a 4-1 lead in opposition to Kershaw within the third. Slater crushed a two-run house run, his third, and Edgar Quero added an RBI single.
Los Angeles tied it 4-4 within the ninth, scoring on a fielder’s selection grounder from Shohei Ohtani and a sacrifice fly from Mookie Betts. Freeman ended it on a single to proper in opposition to Steven Wilson, whereas Grant Taylor (0-1) took the loss after he was charged with three runs in 1 1/3 innings.
Kershaw, 37, turned simply the fourth left-handed pitcher to succeed in the three,000 milestone together with CC Sabathia (3,093), Steve Carlton (4,136) and Randy Johnson (4,875).
Nolan Ryan is the all-time strikeout chief at 5,714.
Kershaw can be the third lively pitcher to succeed in the mark, together with Max Scherzer (3,419) and Justin Verlander (3,417). Scherzer reached 3,000 as a member of the Dodgers in September of 2021.
Solely two different pitchers reached 3,000 with the identical crew: Bob Gibson (St. Louis Cardinals), Walter Johnson (Washington Nationals).
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