But when the euphoria clears Clayton Kershaw decisive withdrawal of Champions World Series and the Dodgers season-opening 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants before a sellout crowd of 56,000 Thursday at Dodger Stadium, there will be more questions than answers when Kershaw is affected.
They hope that this is the year where those answers start coming with regularity - in the affirmative.
Kershaw, as has become his habit last year or so, went against one of the best starting pitchers in the league, two-time Cy Young Award winner in charge Tim Lincecum. Skeptical, I would like to stress here is clearly not Lincecum at best, not the evening, in which he walked three batters and seemed to be a constant difficulty in the first inning. This is the same skeptical even remember the notoriously free-swinging for the Giants was particularly true in this game, when Kershaw navigate through his seven inning shutout in the bottom 96 places even if he has invested nine batters.
It is tempting then to ask whether this is the year that Kershaw will storm in elite level pitchers. It would be the level Lincecum - that the Dodgers continue to take Kershaw with the seventh pick in the amateur draft in 2006, leaving Lincecum for the Giants at number 10 - came years.
Provided that a game can be an indication, the answer seems to be some, perhaps, or possibly large.
"I saw last year the possibility that this child, and his desire to improve," said catcher Rod Barajas, who came to the Dodgers New York Mets on the claim in August this year last. "I called him last year. ... I definitely see this kid step and now with the best in baseball. It is special. It is the total package. It can not and it has the secondary locations . A lot of young guys have problems with their secondary sites. They will not throw their secondary pitches when behind in the count. But he has enough confidence to do it. "
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