Clayton Kershaw throws tantrum (and the ball) after fielding lapse

Tom Gatto

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When you're Clayton Kershaw, and you can do this with your glove . . .

. . . of course you're going to be a little upset when you do THIS with your glove.

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Kershaw has had a drama-filled start Tuesday night in Oakland. Shortly after the tantrum, he almost got himself ejected by home plate umpire Todd Tichenor, who did not take kindly to some of Kershaw's other histrionics. Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis began jawing with Tichenor to protect his franchise batterymate.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.