Goodbye from Kershaw and Battle Astros and Mariners steal attention in MLB
Weekend: last Kershaw game, four million fans in the and battle between stars and mariners dominate the MLB stage.
Clayton Kershaw’s last departure in his regular season, nothing more and nothing less than against the San Francisco Giants, while the Angeles Dodgers try to complete the four million fans at home for the first time in their history, and the battle between the Seattle Mariners and the Houston Astros Major Leagues (MLB).
Kershaw, a future member of the Hall of Fameannounced Thursday that he will retire from baseball at the end of the current season, after 18 wonderful years, always with the Dodgers. It does so in a year in which it has a 10-2 mark in 20 exits and reached the magical figure of the three thousand strikeouts.
Kershaw (222-96, 2.54 and 3,039 strikeouts in 2,844.2 innings) will face the great rivals of the Dodgers, the Giants, in their formal farewell of the game. The legendary leftist has a 2-16 mark and effectiveness of 2.08 in 62 appearances (60 openings) against San Francisco.
The triple winner of the Cy Young award and more valuable player It will go up to the box for the last time in the regular series at the Dodger Stadium, where it has a 117-42 and effectiveness of 2.26 in 227 openings. Assistance is expected above the 50 thousand fans in the game.
Dodgers enter the weekend leading MLB with 3 million, 859 thousand, 581 fans, an average of 49,481 in 78 games. Los Angeles needs to average 46,806 in their last three commitments to reach 4 million for the first time.
While Los Angeles (86-67) seeks West divisionSan Francisco (76-77) tries to climb to a positive brand and erase the difference of three games that separates them from the New York Mets (79-74) in the pitched fight that is fought for the third wild card to the playoffs of the playoffs of the National League.
Two other teams, the Arizona Diamondbacks (77-76) and the Cincinnati Reds (77-76), are in the middle of Mets and Giants. Cincinnati receives the classified Chicago Cubs and Arizona to the East Division champions, the Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets will play at home against the eliminated Washington Nationals.
The most important series of the weekend between direct rivals for a postseason is the one that starts Friday between the mariners and the stars in the Daikin Park in Houston.
Mariners and Astros are tied at the tip of the West division of the American Leaguewith a mark of 84-69, while enjoying an apparent good advantage (2.5 games) for a Wild Card Square.
But one sweep on the other would radically change the landscape for the loser, especially if the Cleveland Guardians take advantage of the situation. Cleveland (81-71) Visit to the Minnesota Twins located and a half of the Boston Red Sox (83-70) in the Third Charle already 2.5 of Houston and Seattle in the second.
Boston visits the Tampa Bay Rays on the weekend.
