By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-On the night where the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their third consecutive National League Western Division Championship, Clayton Kershaw was not the only star of the game.

Kike Hernandez got the celebration going, as he scored the only that the Dodgers would need on their way to 8-0 over the San Francisco Giants before a crowd of 41,862, the 403rd consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

With the win, the Giants are officially eliminated from the playoffs and they watched their longtime rivals celebrate on their field.

Hernandez scored the Dodgers first run of the game in the first inning, as he led off the game with a single, advanced to third on a Kelby Tomlinson fielding error on a ball hit by Howie Kendrick and after Adrian Gonzalez loaded the bases with a walk, Justin Turner hit a sacrifice fly that scored Hernandez from third base.

In his second at-bat of the evening, Hernandez planted a Madison Bumgarner offering into the left field bleachers for his seventh home run of the season.

Kershaw was his dominant self in the clincher, as he went nine innings, allowing zero runs on just one hit while walking one and striking out on his way to picking up his 16th win of the season. The left-hander retired the last 19 batters he faced.

He struck out the side on three different occasions, and struck out two in another inning.

It was a tough loss for Bumgarner, who allowed four runs (three of them earned) on five hits, while walking one and striking out six, as he saw his record fall to 18-9 on the season.

This was the Dodgers first win in the Bay Area after 10 tries, as they are now 1-7 at AT&T Park and were swept by the Oakland A’s at the Coliseum on August 18 and 19.

Kevin Frandsen picked up the lone Giants hit of the night off of Kershaw , as he singled with one out in the bottom of the third inning. Angel Pagan was the only other Giants player to reach base against Kershaw, as he walked in the bottom of the third after Bumgarner popped out to second base for the second out of the inning. That would be the lone Giants rally of the night.

The Giants defense did not help Bumgarner at all, as Tomlinson’s big error in the top of the first led the Dodgers scoring their first run of the game and then Brandon Crawford committed a throwing error in the top of the fifth inning off the bat of Hernandez and then after a basehit by Kendrick, Bumgarner was able to get of the jam.

It was a totally different story in the top of the sixth inning, as after Bumgarner got Turner and Corey Seager out for the first two outs of the inning, Justin Ruggiano and A.J. Ellis hit back-to-back home runs on successive pitches to put an end to Bumgarner’s night.