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Walker Buehler struggled throughout the regular season but found a new gear during the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 2024 World Series run. The right-hander finished the postseason with 13 consecutive scoreless innings, including six against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
Buehler\u2019s only start of the Fall Classic came in Game 3 at Yankee Stadium. He allowed just two hits and collected five strikeouts against two walks in five innings pitched.<\/p>\n
The solid outing wasn\u2019t without some pregame frustrations. While Buehler was warming up in the bullpen, the lights at Yankee Stadium went out during rapper Fat Joe\u2019s performance on the field.<\/p>\n
Buehler recalled the frustrating experience and detailed how he had to improvise, via \u201cJust Baseball Fans:\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst off, they treat you so good in New York. In the visiting clubhouse, you\u2019re so comfortable, the food is unbelievable. It\u2019s pro-pro there, which is really kind of a cool deal. But, and I don\u2019t know how intentional this was, or who made this decision, but the game is at whatever \u2013 I think it was at 7:15 \u2013 and they got Fat Joe going out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey turned off the entire stadium lights, including the bullpens, from 7:02 until 7:13. They did not turn the lights back on until the Yankees went onto the field. So there was eight or 10 minutes that I needed to throw about 12 more pitches. The catcher could not see the ball, so I didn\u2019t get to throw a single ball.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo what I ended up doing, is we have the Trackman out there, which is on a tripod. I fired six balls directly at the Trackman before that start. Normally what I do is all my windups, we do the anthem, I do my stretch. I got like three throws out of the stretch before that game, and six of them I just whizzed at the Trackman with (Mark) Prior just throwing me a new ball every time. So there was like six balls sprayed all over the bullpen.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI walked in, the lights are still off. The Yankees take the field while I\u2019m walking in and I walk up to the umpire and I go, \u2018They got to fix this [expletive] for tomorrow.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Yeah, I don\u2019t know why they did that or how they can do that.\u2019 I was like, \u2018You guys need to tell somebody.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo we walk in to the dugout and everyone was like, \u2018You good?\u2019 Because I was pissed off. So I was like, \u2018Yeah, they [expletive] up,\u2019 and then I just walked in and we had the game.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n While Buehler understandably wasn\u2019t happy with the Yankees, the incident ultimately did not affect his performance on the mound.<\/p>\n Buehler had the last laugh as he memorably closed out Game 5 of the World Series on just one day of rest. He retired all three batters on 16 pitches en route to his first Major League save.<\/p>\n Buehler will be seeing a lot more of the Yankees going forward as he recently joined the Boston Red Sox on a one-year contract in free agency.<\/p>\n The signing ended Buehler\u2019s near-decade stint with the Dodgers organization. In parts of seven big league seasons, he went 47-22 with a 3.27 ERA and 1.09 WHIP in 131 games (122 starts).<\/p>\n NL executive praises Red Sox signing Walker Buehler The 30-year-old signed with the team for the equivalent of the qualifying offer, which the Dodgers decided not to extend to Buehler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Walker Buehler struggled throughout the regular season but found a new gear during the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 2024 World Series run. The right-hander finished the postseason with… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nA National League executive went on the record of saying the Red Sox\u2019s signing of Buehler could be the steal of the offseason.<\/p>\n