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Los Angeles Dodgers Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Clayton Kershaw had some interesting postgame comments following his team's 3-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks Monday night.

Tuesday, while a guest of Burns & Gambo on Arizona Sports 620, Arizona skipper Kirk Gibson was asked about Kershaw's comment that there was "no place" for the D-backs' aggressive, old-school style of baseball known unofficially as "Gibby-ball".

"I don't really know what to say to that. I have no comment on Clayton Kershaw. If he wants to talk to me about it, I mean, we're on the same field," Gibson said.

"Obviously, he's a good ball player. I just really haven't ever found the need to comment through the media about things like that."

Kershaw, along with Diamondbacks' starter Ian Kennedy, were warned about pitching inside. During a third inning at-bat, Kennedy actually threw a pitch behind Kershaw. The brush-backs were believed to be fueled by an incident last season when Kershaw was ejected from a September game after hitting Arizona's Gerardo Parra with a pitch. This occurred just one day after Parra infuriated the Dodgers by admiring a homer he hit off of Hong-Chih Kuo.

Gibson was asked if he thought there was intent by his starter to hit Kershaw for retaliation some eight months later.

"I think he pitched him inside a couple of times," he said. "I don't know, I didn't throw the ball."

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