CHICAGO _ The Dodgers have a pair of 10s to go with their ace.
Left-hander Clayton Kershaw pitched seven scoreless innings as the Dodgers beat the Chicago White Sox, 1-0, Tuesday night.
The win was the Dodgers' 10th in a row and gives them two winning streaks of at least 10 games for the first time since the 1955 team had winning streaks of 10 and 11 games.
It was also the Dodgers' 30th win in their past 34 games. No team has ripped off a 30-4 stretch since the 1977 Kansas City Royals and no National League team had done it since the 1936 New York Giants.
Pitching for the first time since he closed out the first half of the season with a complete game against the Royals nine days ago, Kershaw looked both rested and rusted.
He didn't retire the side in order until the fifth inning and stranded runners in scoring position in three of those first four innings. He had to work out of another dangerous situation in the sixth when Corey Seager's throwing error on an infield single put Avisail Garcia at second base with one out.
Matt Davidson singled, moving Garcia to third. But Tyler Saladino bunted Kershaw's first pitch into the air at home plate for an out and Kevan Smith grounded out softly to third base to end the inning.
Kershaw allowed seven hits in his seven innings, the most he has given up in a start since May. But the White Sox were 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position against him, Davidson's harmless (as it turned out) single being the only hit.
The Dodgers' offense had similar issues against White Sox starter Miguel Gonzalez. Three of the first four Dodgers reached base against Gonzalez and they scored a run on Cody Bellinger's RBI single. But that was all the damage they could do against Gonzalez despite 11 baserunners _ five hits, five walks and a hit batter _ in his six innings. The White Sox turned three double plays in the first five innings.
They turned a fourth in the eighth inning when the Dodgers loaded the bases with no outs but came away without a run. Chris Taylor (four hits) and Bellinger (two hits, two walks) were each on base four times. But the Dodgers finished the night 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position _ Bellinger's RBI single was the only success.
That gave Pedro Baez and Kenley Jansen no margin for error when they took over for Kershaw after his seven innings.
Yasiel Puig made up for his part in the unproductive offense (he bounced into a double play with the bases loaded) by making a diving catch in right field to start the eighth. Taylor had to go back to the wall in left field to corral Davidson's long fly to start the ninth. But Baez and Jansen closed it out.
