ST. LOUIS (AP) — Clayton Kershaw allowed one run in five innings to record his first win since last August, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
Kershaw (1-0) threw 82 pitches, gave up six hits, struck out seven and walked none. The 37-year-old left-hander had not struck out at least seven since June 8, 2023, at Cincinnati, and his last win was also at St. Louis, on Aug. 18, 2024.
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani takes his base after being hit by a pitch during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Willson Contreras celebrates after hitting an RBI single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Tommy Edman and teammate Enrique Hernandez (8) celebrate a victory over the St. Louis Cardinals following baseball game Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw works during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Tommy Edman drove in three runs with two hits and a sacrifice fly, and Mookie Betts homered for the Dodgers. Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff double and went 1 for 4.
St. Louis starter Michael McGreevy (1-1) was 7 years old when Kershaw made his major league debut on May 25, 2008, against the Cardinals. The 24-year-old right-hander, recalled from Triple-A Memphis to make his first start this season, gave up four runs in six innings.
Edman had an RBI single and Hyeseong Kim hit a two-run triple to put LA ahead 3-0 in the second. Edman added a run-scoring double in the fourth.
St. Louis scored against Kershaw in the fifth on a two-out RBI double by Masyn Winn.
With a runner on third and two outs in the second inning, shortstop Winn fielded a hard grounder by Betts on the grass behind second base, twirled and fired to first baseman Willson Contreras for the out. The Dodgers unsuccessfully challenged the call.
Kershaw, who is 17 strikeouts shy of 3,000 in his career, improved to 12-6 lifetime against the Cardinals.
Dodgers: Begin a three-game series at San Diego on Monday night with Dustin May (3-4, 4.09 ERA) on the mound.
Cardinals: At Toronto for a three-game series starting Monday nigth with Andre Pallante (4-3, 4.91) against the Blue Jays' José Berríos (2-2, 3.67).
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani takes his base after being hit by a pitch during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
St. Louis Cardinals' Willson Contreras celebrates after hitting an RBI single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Tommy Edman and teammate Enrique Hernandez (8) celebrate a victory over the St. Louis Cardinals following baseball game Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw works during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, June 8, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer, Minnesota's Twin Cities on Sunday braced for what many expect will be a new normal over the next few weeks as the Department of Homeland Security carries out what it called its largest enforcement operation ever.
In one Minneapolis neighborhood filled with single-family homes, protesters confronted federal agents and attempted to disrupt their operations by blowing car horns and whistles and banging on drums.
There was some pushing and several people were hit with chemical spray just before agents banged down the door of one home on Sunday. They later took one person away in handcuffs.
“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring and gathering information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.
While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said on Sunday that the investigation into shooting death of Renee Good shouldn’t be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith both said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiassed investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dismissed complaints from Minnesota officials about local agencies being denied any participation in the investigation during an interview with CNN.
“We do work with locals when they work with us,” she said, criticizing the Minneapolis mayor and others for not assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
Frey and Noem each pointed fingers at the other for their rhetoric after Good's killing, and each pushed their own firm conclusions about what video of the incident shows. The mayor stood by his assertions that videos show “a federal agent recklessly abusing power that ended up in somebody’s dying.”
“Let’s have the investigation in the hands of someone that isn’t biased," Frey said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The killing of Good on Wednesday by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests across the country over the weekend.
Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis on Saturday where Homeland Security called its deployment of immigration officers in the Twin Cities its biggest ever immigration enforcement operation.
Associated Press journalists Thomas Strong in Washington, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.
Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
