Clayton Kershaw: Still not over losing the NLCS | Forward Progress

0:00Hey, it's Thursday, which means we're coming at you with a short feel-good story from a past guest. Hope you enjoyed the clip. This week, Clayton Kershaw.

0:14I'm sure your favorite topic, the National League Championship Series, Dodgers-Cardinals, Game 6. you end up, you know, I think giving up 10 hits, 7 runs. The Dodgers end up losing the game. The Cardinals advance to the World Series. How hard was that loss for you to take? It was pretty tough. I mean, any time your season ends, it's no fun. And then, you know, when you're a main reason why it ends, it's also not a great feeling. So we didn't score any runs that day, so that makes me feel a little bit better, even if I pitched awesome. But at the end of the day, I didn't pitch well. And who knows, if I had given up one or two runs, they might have felt like they were in it, and they might have scored some runs too.

1:05So you can't help but feel pretty responsible for that. And it's never a good feeling. Even flying back with the team the next day, all the guys were pretty normal and joking around saying great season and stuff but you know until you kind of digest it for yourself it took me a lot longer than a day or two yeah how long did it take uh I don't know I'll let you know when I get there really yeah I mean it's you know once this you know you always have a bitter taste in your mouth I mean I still like what what do you well it's no fun I mean it's still no fun to talk about it's still no fun to think about and so that probably means that I'm not completely over it yet you know I'm not staying up at night thinking about it but uh it's definitely not, you know, you definitely don't want to fail.

1:51You know, you definitely don't want to fail your last game. And, you know, I think until you pitch that next game, you know, you're always going to have doubts. To what extent is it great motivation, though? I don't need any motivation. I'll be, you know, it's, I definitely want to go past that. So, you know, that's, I definitely don't want to, you know, you don't get to go to the playoffs every day. So every season, you know, it's definitely something where you don't ever want to fail like that again. So, yeah, I mean, I guess it could be like a fear of failure. That's probably a good motivation.

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