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Dodgers Week 13 review: Clayton Kershaw reaches new heights

By Eric Stephen
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports

The Dodgers had their best week of the season, winning five of six games and shaved 2½ more games off their deficit in the National League West. They were one blown ninth-inning lead away from a perfect week.

But history will look upon the last week and think only of Clayton Kershaw and the greatest game he ever pitched.

Dodger Batter of the Week: Hanley Ramirez hit .400, homered, drove in five and scored seven runs, narrowly beating Matt Kemp, who has a 10-game hitting streak and hit .360 for the week with a home runs and six runs batted in.

Dodger Pitcher of the Week: The starting staff as a whole was great, but the ultimate was Clayton Kershaw on Wednesday pitching a no-hitter and arguably the greatest game ever pitched by a Dodger.

Game of the Week

Wednesday: Dodgers 8, Rockies 0 Clayton Kershaw was nearly perfect against Colorado (Photo: Jaye Kamin-Oncea | USA Today Sports).

Week 13 Record: 5-1
29 runs scored (4.83 per game)
12 runs allowed (2.00 per game)
.834 pythagorean winning percentage

2014 Record: 42-35
329 runs scored (4.27 per game)
289 runs allowed (3.75 per game)
.559 pythagorean winning percentage (43-34)

Miscellany

Chris Perez didn't pitch all week, with his last outing coming on June 15. Don Mattingly said Saturday night it was just a coincidence that Perez hadn't pitched all week.

Transactions

None this week

Game Results

Upcoming Week

The Dodgers run the Lonnie Smith gauntlet, reliving the 1985 World Series with three games in Kansas City followed by four games at home against St. Louis.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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at KC
5:10pm		 24
at KC
5:10pm		 25
at KC
5:10pm		 26
vs StL
7:10pm		 27
vs StL
7:10pm		 28
vs StL
4:15pm		 29
vs StL
1:10pm
Greinke v.
(R) Guthrie		 Kershaw v.
(L) Duffy		 Haren v.
(R) Shields		 Beckett v.
(R) Wainwright		 Ryu v.
(R) Martinez		 Greinke v.
(R) Lynn		 Kerhsaw v.
(R) Miller
SNLA SNLA/MLBN SNLA SNLA/MLBN SNLA Fox SNLA/MLBN

Previous weeks: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12

Week 13 Stats

Player PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SB/CS BA/OBP/SLG OPS
Ramirez 24 20 7 8 1 0 1 5 3 1/2 .400/.458/.600 1.058
Kemp 25 25 2 9 4 0 1 6 0 0/1 .360/.360/.640 1.000
Gordon 28 22 7 7 0 2 0 2 6 3/1 .318/.464/.500 .964
Turner 12 11 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 0/0 .273/.333/.364 .697
Puig 25 21 3 6 1 0 0 4 3 0/0 .286/.360/.333 .693
Ellis 20 16 1 3 0 0 0 1 4 0/0 .188/.350/.188 .538
Gonzalez 20 19 2 4 2 0 0 5 0 0/0 .211/.200/.316 .516
Ethier 16 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0/1 .133/.188/.133 .321
Triunfel 2 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0/0 1.000/1.000/2.500 3.500
Van Slyke 14 11 2 4 1 0 0 0 3 0/1 .364/.500/.455 .955
Rojas 14 14 1 4 1 0 0 3 0 0/0 .286/.286/.357 .643
Butera 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 .250/.250/.250 .500
Romak 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 .000/.000/.000 .000
Pitchers 15 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0/0 .182/.250/.182 .432
Totals 221 193 29 55 11 2 3 27 22 4/6 .285/.353/.409 .763
Pitcher G W-L Sv IP H R ER BB K ERA WHIP FIP*
Kershaw 1 1-0 -- 9 0 0 0 0 15 0.00 0.000 (0.17)
Beckett 1 1-0 -- 7 4 0 0 2 8 0.00 0.857 1.73
Ryu 2 2-0 -- 12 7 2 2 2 8 1.50 0.750 3.41
Greinke 1 1-0 -- 6 6 1 1 2 5 1.50 1.333 2.49
Haren 1 0-0 -- 5⅔ 5 3 3 2 5 4.76 1.235 7.04
Starters 6 5-0 -- 39⅔ 22 6 6 8 41 1.36 0.756 2.68
Wilson 4 0-0 -- 3 2 0 0 2 1 0.00 1.333 4.49
League 4 0-0 -- 2⅔ 3 0 0 1 1 0.00 1.500 2.41
Wright 1 0-0 -- 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.000 3.16
Howell 4 0-0 -- 3 2 1 1 1 3 3.00 1.000 2.16
Jansen 4 0-1 3/4 3⅔ 6 3 3 0 6 7.36 1.636 (0.11)
Maholm 1 0-0 -- ⅔ 1 2 2 1 1 27.00 3.000 4.66
Perez Did not pitch
Relievers 6 0-1 3/4 14 14 6 6 5 12 3.86 1.357 2.30
Totals 6 5-1 3/4 53⅔ 36 12 12 13 53 2.01 0.913 2.58
*FIP is estimated

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