Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Andy Pages, left, center fielder Tommy Edman, center, and right fielder Teoscar Hern谩ndez celebrate the team’s win over the San Francisco Giants in a baseball game in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani bats during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw hugs a teammate in the dugout after being removed from the game during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)
Dodgers clinch 13th straight postseason berth as Kershaw pitches final regular-season home game
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 After Clayton Kershaw pitched the final regular-season home game of his 18-year career, the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their 13th consecutive postseason berth.
Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Andy Pages, left, center fielder Tommy Edman, center, and right fielder Teoscar Hern谩ndez celebrate the team’s win over the San Francisco Giants in a baseball game in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 After Clayton Kershaw pitched the final regular-season home game of his 18-year career, the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their 13th consecutive postseason berth.
over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, the defending World Series champion Dodgers tied the New York Yankees (1995-2007) for the second-longest playoff streak in major league history. Only the Atlanta Braves’ 14 straight berths streak (1991-2005) is longer.
鈥淨uite the accomplishment,鈥 manager Dave Roberts said. 鈥淚t never gets old, you never take it for granted. It takes a lot of hard work to get there.鈥
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Roberts led a Champagne toast in the clubhouse after Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer, his 52nd of the season, and Mookie Betts added a solo shot.
鈥淚 wanted to make sure that we raised a glass to Clayton on this day, his career and kind of acknowledge what we鈥檝e accomplished to get to the postseason,鈥 Roberts said. 鈥淭hat’s one step. The next step is to win this division so we still got some work to do. Once we do that, then we can focus on the postseason.鈥
The Dodgers lead the second-place San Diego Padres by four games in the NL West race and their magic number is four to win the division. Los Angeles is trying to win its 12th division title in the last 13 years and needs three more wins to reach 90 for the 12th consecutive year.
The Dodgers remained five games behind Philadelphia for the No. 2 seed in the National League and will likely be playing in the wild-card series for the first time since 2021.
鈥淲e understand that there鈥檚 still a long way to go,鈥 Roberts said.
Kershaw got a no-decision against the Giants, giving up two runs and four hits in 4 2/3 innings with six strikeouts and four walks.
鈥淚’m excited for what the next, five six weeks could look like,鈥 he said. 鈥淥ur team is honestly stacked with pitching right now. I can do the math. I know there鈥檚 only so many spots, so I鈥檓 just going to continue to try and pitch well and we鈥檒l see what happens.鈥
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Kershaw said he’ll make another start next weekend in Seattle, where the Dodgers conclude the regular season. Then it’ll be up to the front office to decide where the 37-year-old left-hander fits among a rotation that includes Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell.
鈥淲e鈥檙e going to try and win the World Series,鈥 said Kershaw, who will retire at season’s end. 鈥淚鈥檓 ready and willing to do whatever I can to help.鈥
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