Clayton Kershaw is a 3-time Cy Young winner, a nine-time All-Star, and a one time MLB MVP but that doesn’t mean baseball – and throwing a baseball – always comes easy for the lefty.
Take what happened in Saturday night’s St. Louis Cardinals-Los Angeles Dodgers game in LA, for example. The future Hall of Famer fielded a ground ball and then tried to throw it to first base when disaster struck – he mishandled the ball and it ended up going behind him.
Kershaw was able to shake this off and get his 10th win of the season but this was pretty wild to see from such a great pitcher/player:
Clayton Kershaw, Vicious Backwards 12-6 Curveball. 👑 pic.twitter.com/RZE7hxhPyl
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 25, 2022
Whoops!
Twitter had jokes.
Clayton Kershaw – no-doubt first-ballot Hall of Fame baseball throwing man forgets how to throw a ball. https://t.co/7IZJGK6R1p
— Don Mayer (@Brashnir) September 25, 2022
Someone check his glove and hat for tack. That thing falls right off the table! Can’t be natural. https://t.co/U8YjR8fofB
— Mike W. (@MikeDoubleEwe) September 25, 2022
One way to prove you aren't using sticky stuff https://t.co/xuPfg2xCyA
— Ben Murphy (@MurphJammin) September 25, 2022
Spin rate on this is the IRL version of Tenet. https://t.co/GvoJ00kZGg
— slssy k. tran (@snookerst) September 25, 2022
This man has earned $268,342,641 solely by being able to throw a baseball https://t.co/bhkQ2zhzuk
— Bray 🤍💙 (@LeafsNWO) September 25, 2022
Postseason READY https://t.co/fNEzOrY7I8
— Mike: Padres (84-68)(08) (@MikeP0330) September 25, 2022
Never let them know your next move
— Pete (@PeteFTW) September 25, 2022
low spin rate there too, weak!
— James Vanderish (@JVanderish) September 25, 2022
Unhittable
— Chris Causey (@DJHooligan109) September 25, 2022
