Kershaw looked gassed as he walked slowly off the mound, stopping in front of the third-base dugout, doffing his cap and tapping his chest to salute the sellout crowd of 53,536 and blowing a kiss to his wife and kids in the loge level.

The Los Angeles Dodgers had a full night Wednesday, watching Clayton Kershaw record his 3,000th career strikeout before Freddie Freeman capped a three-run ninth-inning rally with a game-ending single in a 5-4 victory over the visiting Chicago White Sox.