LOS ANGELES — As Clayton Kershaw jogged out to the mound on a warm, sticky Thursday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, his family watched delightedly a few hundred feet away. His wife, Ellen, wore a No. 22 hat and her husband’s jersey as she wiped away tears. She stood next to her kids, who created custom Skechers cleats for their dad to celebrate the occasion.
The anticipation that had built behind this start, his first in over nine…