Los Angeles Dodgers players, including Skip Schumaker, left, and Jerry Hairston Jr., second from left, celebrate after winning the NL West title with a 7-6 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in a baseball game Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
By Mark Bradley
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball. But Kershaw, who finished this season with the lowest ERA (1.89) by a National League starter since Greg Maddux in 1995, is no more imposing than Bob Gibson was in 1968, when he had a regular-season ERA of 1.12 and limited the slugging Detroit Tigers to one earned run in his first two World Series starts.
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