While essentially in World Series-or-fail mode, the Los Angeles Dodgers open the coronavirus-shortened season Thursday against the visiting San Francisco Giants looking for the franchise's first title since 1988. The Dodgers still want it, and with a pitching staff led by the duo of Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler, and an offense led by Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger, they won't be OK with anything short of a championship. The start of that quest took a wrong turn Thursday, however, when Kershaw landed on the injured list due to back stiffness hours before he was to make his ninth consecutive Opening Day start.