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The Surprising Truth Behind Clayton Kershaw’s Unmatched Legacy: What the Number 3,000 Really Means for Dodgers History

The Surprising Truth Behind Clayton Kershaw’s Unmatched Legacy: What the Number 3,000 Really Means for Dodgers History
Clayton Kershaw records his 3,000th career strikeout as the Dodgers take on the Chicago White Sox at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday. (Luke Johnson/Los Angeles Times)

Greater than even the great Sandy Koufax.

Gasp. Scream. Please.

I wrote this opinion three years ago and was deluged with a barrage of emphatic and mostly emotional arguments for Koufax.

How dare you diss our Sandy! Koufax won more championships! Koufax never choked in the postseason! Koufax was more dominant!

All true, as well as Koufax being a tremendous human being worthy of every syllable of praise. But as Wednesday so clearly proved in front of a history-thirsty crowd at Chavez Ravine, Kershaw has done something that any defense of Koufax can not equal.

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