Clayton Kershaw

Right now, the Los Angeles Dodgers' focus is aimed intently at Clayton Kershaw's lower back.

Until the three-time Cy Young Award-winner and 2014 National League MVP returns from the disabled list, little else matters for the Dodgers.

The hottest team in baseball is spending less than $14 million on a starting rotation that might turn Cleveland into the city of champions. The richest team in baseball has more than $36 million tied up in starting pitchers who aren’t healthy enough to pitch.

Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw flew back to L.A. on Tuesday to see team doctors about a back injury. 

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The kid was something special, all right. But the story of how Clayton Kershaw, a skinny stick-figured high schooler, landed with the Los Angeles Dodgers 10 years ago as the seventh overall pick in the draft?

The astounding true fact that five pitchers—count 'em—were drafted ahead of him?

Oh, that story is every bit as dramatic as Kershaw's current, majestic strikeout-to-walk ratio of 109:6.

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They are both 23, and each will play an enormous role as the summer heats up and the Washington Nationals and New York Mets duel in the National League East.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw posted the best single-month WHIP by any starting pitcher (minimum five starts) since 1913, recording a sterling 0.52 mark over his six starts in May, per MLB Stat of the Day on Twitter.

Well on his way to a fourth Cy Young Award, the 28-year-old lefty went 5-0 with a 0.91 ERA in May, allowing just five runs (all earned) on 24 hits and two walks in 49.2 innings while striking out 65 batters.

There were no beanballs, no ejections and no Chase Utley fireworks in Sunday night's tussle between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.

Following Monday's outing against the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw had thrown as many shutouts (3) in the month of May as the rest of MLB combined, per ESPN Stats & Info. 

Of course, this isn't the only gaudy statistic Kershaw has churned out lately.

Many will say interleague play in Major League Baseball has lost its luster, but it still has at least one gift to give every year.

It's an annual showdown of epic proportions, and the time has come for it to be renewed in 2016: Clayton Kershaw vs. Mike Trout.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw continued to be in top form, posting his fifth straight start with at least 10 strikeouts in a 5-0 win over the New York Mets on Thursday.

Kershaw is the first Dodgers pitcher since 1913 to put together such a strikeout streak, per MLB Stat of the Day: