If you rewind back to just one month ago, Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers' star pitcher, was preparing for a new season.

He's 32 years old now.

Where was his head at as he was eyeing his 2020 campaign?

The number of times when Clayton Kershaw will be able to exit a season feeling completely

healthy and be able to have deeply focused intentional work on getting stronger to enter

the next season as a very small number.

The career of an athlete is so truncated compared to the rest of us that it's not exaggerating

or overstating it to say that for some people it has to happen now.

And I mean, that's where I found sort of the spark of the universal in all of this,

because in some ways a lot of people are dealing with that exact thing. Like, what do you do when time has stopped and yet you feel

it just reeling away from you? For Clayton Kershaw, 2020 was looking like an opportunity for him to put his postseason

demons in the past and finally win a ring. But with baseball on indefinite hiatus, and Kershaw flying

blind without his normal schedule, it's unclear whether he'll even get that chance.

ESPN's Wright Thompson was with the Dodgers ace when the sports world came to a stop.

He takes us inside that day and Kirshaw's life in limbo.

I'm Mina Kimes.

It's Wednesday, April 15th.

This is ESPN Daily. So, right, Clayton Kershaw is,

of course, one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, surefire Hall of Famer,

but he's also well known at this point for his postseason struggles.

Where were you when the Dodgers lost to the Nationals last fall?

I was at my in-laws house last year during the playoffs, and like everybody, watch that game.

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