“We call him the Big Train because he keeps coming,” Don Mattingly said after watching Clayton Kershaw win his 19th game of the season Sunday.

The birth of a new nickname? Maybe.

Kershaw at the very least matched a 29-year-old team record. He’s 19-3, good for a .864 winning percentage, with two starts left in the regular season. Orel Hershiser went 19-3 in 1985, the only Los Angeles Dodger to finish a season with a winning percentage that high.

Here’s what Hershiser had to say about Kershaw’s season last Wednesday, four days before Kershaw matched his record:

“He is so locked down. He is so — I said last night on the postgame show, it’s not about how good his pitches are now, or his stuff. It’s about how consistent he is. That’s actually become a more remarkable feat than having a great fastball, having a great slider, having a great curveball. Making your starts and staying healthy, going eight innings. It’s the consistency that’s become so remarkable, the consistent dominance. I know how it felt to be 19-3 with a 2.03 (ERA). He’s beating my ERA now by almost a third of a run. He’s probably going to tie for sure the win percent part of it. In some ways I do know what it feels like. In other ways I don’t because I don’t know what it feels like to bring the tools that he does to the game.

“I think I threw the ball four times in my life at the big-league level 94 mph. I never had a slider like he has. I had a pretty good curveball but not like his. He has the very good fortune of being left-handed. He has another good fortune of having very unique mechanics, something that hitters don’t see. I don’t think that’s real high on the priority list of what makes him good, because there are a lot of guys with unique mechanics who don’t throw real well.”