Alexander: On Clayton Kershaw’s debut as a Dodger

Alexander: On Clayton Kershaw’s debut as a Dodger

We’d heard plenty about this young left-handed pitcher, dating to that Sunday spring training game in Vero Beach, Florida, in March of 2008, when the young Clayton Kershaw snapped off a classic 12-to-6 curveball to strike out Boston’s Sean Casey and had Vin Scully, televising the game back to Southern California, almost swooning: “Ohhhh, what a curveball! Holy mackerel! He just broke off Public Enemy No. 1.” We heard more about him once the mino…