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    Bill Shaikin: 200 innings is a rare feat

    by Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2018 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_Clayton Kershaw starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, on the way to 200 innings. He is a proud dinosaur.

    "Two hundred?" he said. "It shouldn't be that hard to get to."

    He should get there, so long as he stays off the disabled list. In the last two seasons, both interrupted by injury for Kershaw, no Dodgers pitcher recorded 200 innings.

    The previous time that happened in a full season? That would be 1944, when World War II depleted rosters, Jackie Robinson was three years from his debut and the Dodgers were 13 years from moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

    Kershaw is a special pitcher for plenty of reasons, but throwing 200 innings should not

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