Marcio Jose Sanchez/APClayton KershawOn the 46th anniversary of Sandy Koufax's perfect game, Clayton Kershaw was nearly so.The emphatic brilliance of Kershaw's pitching renders any play-by-play account of tonight's game too mundane. But I'll give it a try.The transcendent lefty allowed three hits in eight innings – two of them infield hits that, if fielded cleanly, would have been outs – while walking one and striking out nine in the Dodgers' 2-1 victory over Tim Lincecum and the Giants.San Francisco's only run was unearned, thanks to a Dee Gordon error on the Giants' leadoff hitter, Justin Christian. Admittedly, after Carlos Beltran drew San Francisco's only walk and Pablo Sandoval drove in the run with the Giants' only hit to the outfield,