{"id":88735,"date":"2024-11-01T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=88735"},"modified":"2024-11-01T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T02:30:54","slug":"dodgers-kershaw-have-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/01\/dodgers-kershaw-have-surgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Veteran Pitcher Will Have Multiple Surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kershcl01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clayton Kershaw<\/a>\u00a0will have multiple surgeries this Wednesday, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. The left-hander will have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/06\/dodgers-getting-internal-pitching-reinforcements\/\" target=\"_self\">a bone spur<\/a> removed and a ruptured plantar plate repaired in his left foot. The future Hall-of-Famer will also have a torn meniscus in his left knee fixed. The recovery time for these procedures is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Clayton Kershaw will undergo two surgeries on Wednesday he said.<\/p>\n<p>One, to address his toe \u2014 there\u2019s more damage than the bone spurs, including a ruptured plantar plate.<\/p>\n<p>The second, to repair the meniscus in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline TBD.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/1852455919504036288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dodgers Veteran Pitcher Will Have Multiple Surgeries<\/h2>\n<h3>A Myriad Of Injuries<\/h3>\n<p>The veteran southpaw spent most of this year recovering from off-season <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/11\/03\/clayton-kershaw-surgery-offseason\/\" target=\"_self\">shoulder surgery<\/a>. He was able to come back briefly and pitch effectively until a bone spur in his left toe forced him to leave a start early against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He never returned to the mound this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Forever A Dodger?<\/h3>\n<p>Kershaw announced recently that he <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/14\/clayton-kershaw-return-dodgers-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">plans to return<\/a> in 2025 in a Dodger uniform. He has a ten million player option for next year. It is an incentive-laden contract based on the number of starts he makes during the season. He will unlikely pitch for any other franchise besides Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Although he wasn&#8217;t able to contribute on the mound during the postseason this year, his teammates say that he was the chief cheerleader from the dugout, and Kershaw&#8217;s support has been invaluable.<\/p>\n<h3>A Loaded Starting Rotation<\/h3>\n<p>Kershaw isn&#8217;t the only starting pitcher set to return next year. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/17\/dodgers-tony-gonsolin-close-return-tommy-john\/\" target=\"_self\">Tony Gonsolin,<\/a> Dustin May, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/13\/dodgers-tyler-glasnow-setback-simulated-game\/\" target=\"_self\">Tyler Glasnow,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/24\/dodgers-superstar-will-not-pitch-in-world-series\/\" target=\"_self\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> will also be back on the mound in 2025. The only question is, can they stay healthy?<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Kershaw hasn&#8217;t pitched more than 135 innings since 2019.<\/p>\n<h3>Career Accomplishments<\/h3>\n<p>The three-time Cy Young Award Winner has the lowest Earned Run Average (2.50) among active pitchers in baseball. He is also 36 strikeouts for 3000 in his career. Now, the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/31\/dodgers-win-2024-world-series\/\" target=\"_self\"> two-time World Series Champion<\/a> hopes to stay healthy enough to contribute to a resume that is already good enough to send him to Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw\u00a0will have multiple surgeries this Wednesday, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. The left-hander will have a bone spur removed and a ruptured plantar plate repaired in his left foot. The future Hall-of-Famer will also have a torn meniscus in his left knee fixed. The recovery time for these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":88742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1071],"tags":[97,1750,2178,2056,1245],"class_list":["post-88735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-dustin-may","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-tony-gonsolin","tag-tyler-glasnow"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}