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Kershaw’s Rough Return: Did Age or Injury Shake Dodgers’ Ace in Critical Season Opener?

Kershaw’s Rough Return: Did Age or Injury Shake Dodgers’ Ace in Critical Season Opener?

“The superstar players that I have been around, there’s always something that fuels them and they need that,” Roberts said. “Him not being a part of that last year, I know that that’s fueling him.”

Logan O’Hoppe hits a three-run home run off Dodgers reliever Kirby Yates in the seventh inning Saturday. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)

With Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kershaw’s high school teammate, looking on, Kershaw struggled through a 38-pitch first inning, giving up a bases-loaded single to O’Hoppe and an RBI double to Matthew Lugo. But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning.

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