Jun 18, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (22) celebrates after recording the final out of his no hitter against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers won 8-0.Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
For the second time in just 24 days, the Los Angeles Dodgers got to celebrate a magical night, this time on their home turf as the ace of all aces, Clayton Kershaw made the Colorado Rockies look like a Pony League team. Â En route to his first career no-hitter, Kershaw used just 107 pitches, and struck out a career high 15 Rockies. Â His fastball was sizzling, his slider was diving, and his curveball seemed to defy the laws of physics, simply put, the Rockies had no chance.
The no-no was a flawless one because the one batter who reached base for the Rockies, outfielder Corey Dickerson, was allowed to reach safely because of a throwing error by Hanley Ramirez in the top of the 7th inning (Incidentally, the only other no-hitter with only an error accounting for the lone base runner was at the fault of another Dodger, Juan Uribe, who spoiled a perfect game for Jonathan Sanchez in 2009 with the San Francisco Giants).  Dickerson would make it to third base, but Kershaw didn’t blink, freezing catcher Wilin Rosario with a mystifying curveball for a called strike three.
Kershaw cruised through the final two frames, clearly aware of the goings on at Chavez Ravine tonight, his only scare coming on a Josh Rutledge line drive, just a couple feet foul down the left field line. Â He proved to the world though, just why the Dodgers saw fit to invest $215 million in the left handed Texan.
Kershaw’s 15 K’s tied Braves legend Warren Spahn for the most in a no-hitter by a left handed pitcher.  After Josh Beckett‘s gem in Philadelphia, the second no-hitter of the season for the Dodgers marks the first time it has happened for them since Carl Erskine and Sal Maglie tossed no-hitters in 1956.  This was the 22nd no-hitter in Dodgers franchise history.
By the way, Kershaw improves to 8-2 on the season, lowers his ERA to 2.52, and the Dodgers now trail the reeling Giants by just four games in the NL West. Â Suffice it to say, things are about to get real interesting out west.