Kershaw (5-1) hurled a three-hit shutout in a 5-0 win against the Mets on Thursday, striking out 13 with one walk.
That's his second shutout of the year and his fifth consecutive game of double-digit strikeouts. It's no fun for fans of opposing teams, but Kershaw in the prime of his career is poetry in motion. Incredibly, he's walked just four batters while striking out 77 in 62 innings spanning his first eight starts of 2016. There's no shortage of superlatives we can lay on Kershaw, who's challenged only by Jake Arrieta for the title of best pitcher in baseball.