{"id":40593,"date":"2025-09-26T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dodgers-celebrate-nl-west-title-with-ohtani-and-kershaw-playoffs-in-sight\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:18:00","slug":"dodgers-celebrate-nl-west-title-with-ohtani-and-kershaw-playoffs-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/dodgers-celebrate-nl-west-title-with-ohtani-and-kershaw-playoffs-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers celebrate NL West title with Ohtani and Kershaw; playoffs in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2013 Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their twelfth National League West Division title in thirteen years, while Clayton Kershaw reflected on his possible last participation in a divisional championship celebration.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This is what I&#8217;m going to miss. Pitching is great and I love it too, but doing this with a group of guys, all working towards a collective goal, the camaraderie&#8230; That&#8217;s really special.<\/p><cite>Clayton Kershaw<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe left-handed pitcher expressed his feelings after Thursday&#8217;s 8-0 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks.\n\nKershaw, eleven-time All-Star and three-time Cy Young Award winner, announced his retirement last week after the postseason. He won his first divisional title in 2008, in his rookie year.\n\nThe celebration was a moment of joy for the team.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0926%2Fr1551196_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El lanzador de los Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw, a la derecha, es ba\u00f1ado en champ\u00e1n despu\u00e9s de que el equipo asegurara el t\u00edtulo de la Liga Nacional Oeste, el 12 en 13 a\u00f1os, con una victoria de 8-0 contra los Diamondbacks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nWhile the Dodgers celebrated their 2013 divisional title by jumping into the Chase Field pool, this time they avoided the water, except when Shohei Ohtani hit a spectacular home run, his 54th of the season.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Winning the division title can never be taken for granted. We feel like we&#8217;re really starting to click.<\/p><cite>Freddie Freeman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFreddie Freeman, who hit two home runs on Thursday, highlighted the importance of this achievement.\n\nLos Angeles, which reached 90 wins for the twelfth consecutive season, will play in a wild card series for the first time since the best-of-three round was added in 2022.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You only play this game for a limited time, so you only have so many opportunities to do this. I feel great. I really didn&#8217;t do anything in the first half of the season, so I got a lot of rest and I&#8217;m happy to help.<\/p><cite>Mookie Betts<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDave Roberts has reached the playoffs in his 10 years as Dodgers manager, nine times as division winner. LA won the World Series last season.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This was expected. We did it, maybe a little later than we expected. But I am happy with the way we are playing. I think we are better because of all the adversity and we are playing our best baseball now.<\/p><cite>Dave Roberts<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRoberts emphasized that what was achieved before doesn&#8217;t matter, but rather the confidence in the team and the pursuit of the championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2013 Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their twelfth National League West Division title in thirteen years, while Clayton Kershaw reflected on his possible last participation in a divisional championship celebration. This is what I&#8217;m going to miss. Pitching is great and I love it too, but doing this with a group of guys, all working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2114,9044,566,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-40593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mlb","7":"tag-clayton-kershaw","8":"tag-division-title","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-playoffs"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}