Dodgers postgame: Clayton Kershaw wishes he gave offense "a better chance to win the game"

[Music] today what do you think some adjustments were you making just to be a little bit more effective espe after that first Inn yeah first inning you know can't happen you know get get get our team you know behind that much that early is tough to come back from but um when you're on a great team like we are you know you just try and try and make it as best you can and I mean our team showed what they can do tonight you know they came back they they battled and um you know can't say enough good things about you know offensively what these guys did um you know Bradley's a really good pitcher on the other side so for them to put up that many runs against him is is impressive but yeah you know first inning was bad and kind of settled in there in a little bit and you know that fifth inning run really bothered me there um after we got those runs back so just a lot of things that I need to execute better on for sure what what wasn't working for you that first I don't know made some bad pitches more hidden spots as opposed to M it's kind of all one and the same yeah how did you describe us the defensive performance tonight it didn't see pretty CL in some situations just to limit the damage here there yeah migy made some great plays you know well thrown out Runners um you know all the way around yeah just I think on the you know getting our guys healthy on the position player side it's uh it's pretty impressive and then you add you know what show has been doing it's been it's been pretty amazing so um you know myself and especially just needs to pick it up and give our team a little bit more of a chance and we we'll win a lot of games after our first inning like that um how do you get back track uh I mean you don't really have another option you know just you keep going and just try to make the next pitch keep trying to make the next pitch over and over again and um you know I worked there for a little bit but obviously um got to be better than the first to start sh uh you know the go ahead home run there put you in life for the win even even with some of the early struggles just would you make of him coming up again with a big spot big spot there yeah I mean sh's been um you can't say enough I don't know what else you can say you know it's just every night there's something special that he does and um all the while you know rehabing and trying to get ready to pitch so it's uh it's pretty remarkable you know I think you see it day in day out you probably take it for granted a little bit but it's a pretty special season and um you know he's he's he's the best for a reason you said that first Innings like that can't happen when they do does it feel like a little bit of a set back uh yeah I mean it's not great but what else are you going to do just got to keep pitching do you look at just you now have a collection of starts do you kind of assess those just as you prepare for now September and getting ready for October well I mean every start is its own you know I think um you can take some stuff that you did well and some stuff you did bad and try to get better at it but um you know at the end of the day each start is its own and you just got to you just got to be better and um you know obviously we're fighting for something here and making the postseason and then you know once you do that you figure out who's pitching in the postseason so there's a lot of things uh a lot of reasons to pitch good for sure not that you haven't been on Team St in the past because you hav't fortunate but knowing if you do give up some runs in the first s year four in this the offense can still put up seven in the game must change things just a little bit uh yeah I mean it doesn't change what we're trying to do you know obviously but um it's a good feeling coming into every game knowing that um you got this offense behind you so um yeah like I said before just give our team a little bit of a chance and we'll probably win the game

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