Last year, Walker Buehler was one of the best pitchers in all of baseball. This year, Buehler has struggled to find his consistency. On Saturday night against the Mets at Dodger Stadium, Buehler failed to complete three innings of work before being pulled.
Walker gave up five earned runs including two home runs as the Mets boat raced the Dodgers to a 9-4 victory. After the game, Buehler talked about how he was encouraged by his four-seam fastball velocity in the outing, despite the end result (quotes via OCR’s Bill Plunkett).
“I just kind of keep bouncing around between what they’re hitting.