LOS ANGELES — One year ago, he was neither the heir apparent ace in Los Angeles nor the commanding voice spitting a four-letter word over the microphone to a packed stadium.
"F--k…whoops!"
No, one year ago, Walker Buehler was just another schmo sitting in the Dodger Stadium upper deck at Games 1 and 2 of the World Series. He and a few other prospects occupied seats the club reserved for them way down near the left field foul pole.
Now, the man who needed a ticket to last year's Fall Classic could be the key to the Dodgers' first World Series title in three decades.