Usually every team has an ace on their pitching staff, even the worst of teams. Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies won 27 of his team's 59 wins in 1972, an astonishing 45.8 percent of his teams wins. The Los Angeles Dodgers have a pair of aces on their staff in Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw. The right-left combination are a combined 25-9 this season with an ERA around two, only accounting for about 35 percent of their team's wins. With a stronger bullpen, the win total would probably be much higher than that.
Kershaw shut down the powerful young bats of the Chicago Cubs, striking out 14 and only allowing three hits in eight innings. Greinke and Kershaw should both be in the running for the National League Cy Young Award but they will probably cancel each other out.
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