"Maybe this season wasn't so bad for Dodgers fans after all.

The franchise is in Bankruptcy Court, the owner widely despised and the team mired well out of first place on the final day of the regular season.

But the faithful got to watch pitcher Clayton Kershaw and center fielder Matt Kemp chase a statistical rarity.

Only once — in 1934 — have two players on the same team captured the triple crowns of batting and pitching.

Kershaw has done it with National League bests in wins, strikeouts and earned-run average. Kemp leads in home runs and runs batted in, and is third in batting average.

"Why not get excited?" said John Thorn, the historian for Major League Baseball. "The idea that Kemp and Kershaw had a shot at it was pretty cool.""