One Photo Will Show You Why Dodgers Ace Clayton Kershaw is One of the Best of All Time

How to be a GOAT.

One day later -- not even 24 hours after he was embarrassed by the Arizona Diamondbacks, Clayton Kershaw was back out there getting his work in. 

Optional workout for the Dodgers, but 3-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw is in the outfield, showing why he’s one of the hardest working men in the business pic.twitter.com/WnhVgYAodG

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) October 8, 2023

He didn't need to do it. The Dodgers held an optional practice on Sunday. But that's not how Clayton Kershaw is built.

Any one of us would have stayed home and hid under the covers in bed. That might be part of the reason that none of us here on this article right now are Hall of Famers.

Kershaw served up 6 runs before the seats were even warm at Dodger Stadium and left after recording a career-low one out in Game 1 on the NLDS.

As Dave Roberts said on Sunday, "I think sometimes, as Clayton did yesterday, is you've just got to take your medicine and say I wasn't good enough on that particular outing."

Clayton Kershaw out running on the field on a day off may not mean much to you, but it means something to every player and coach in that Dodger clubhouse.

The 35-year-old is expected to get the ball to start Game 4, if the Dodgers can make it that far. First, rookie right-hander Bobby Miller has to pitch his club to a win in Game 2 on Monday night. The some combination of Lance Lynn and Ryan Pepiot in Game 3 in Arizona.

Then it just may be Kershaw day again. And from the looks of it, he'll be ready.