Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (back) threw a "full effort" three-inning simulated game Sunday, per MLB.com. Kershaw expects the next time he takes the hill it will be on a rehab assignment.
"This was full effort for me," he said. "You can't simulate the adrenaline of a big league game. But as far as [a] 10 a.m. sim game, that's all I got."
Kershaw added the soreness and stiffness from the teres major muscle strain in his back that landed him on the disabled list "is gone, and now it's just building back up" arm strength.