Walker Buehler never let the Nationals get in a groove. The right-hander used his bread and butter, his fastball, to pitch the Dodgers to a win, 4-1. We were one day away from an epic Buehler-Max Scherzer showdown, but the sim gods weren’t going to allow it.
Buehler was the story of the day. He turned in his best outing of the young season: 8 1/3 IP, 5 H, 1 R/ER, 0 BB, 11 K, 100 pitches, 77 strikes.
In postgame comments to the Los Angeles Chronicle — an absolutely real newspaper that Bill Plaschke and TJ Simer should work for — Buehler said, “If the effort is there, the wins will come.