Clayton Kershaw pursed his lips and shook his head. Like he has done with so many hitters, Jacob deGrom left the superstar Dodgers pitcher baffled.

How does a pitcher whose fastball buzzed in the low-90s in 2016 climb to the upper-90s by 2020? How does a pitcher go an entire year without stepping on a major league mound, then return as if no injury had slowed him? How does that pitcher fight countless injuries, turn 34 years old and somehow average 99.4 mph with his fastball?

Kershaw just kept shaking his head.

“I think it’s probably one of those things that you can’t take much from, because it doesn’t happen,” Kershaw told Post Sports+ this week, while his Dodgers were in town and lost two of three to the Mets. “You’re kind of defying evolution a little bit.”