The 163 match is not too big for the Dodgers rookie, Walker Buehler

LOS ANGELES – The nods. Have you seen the nods?

Walker Buehler had dropped out of baseball Monday afternoon and had entrusted him to the next guy, the first unofficial day of fall, who was on the baseball calendar.

He probably did not want to go. Guys like Walker Buehler almost never do it. They do not want to be saved. They do not want to be tired. Anyway, nobody is tired at 24 years old. They do not fear what will happen for the third time, the fourth time, whatever. They do not want help. They have that.

Perhaps it is the conviction of youth or the conviction of recent history or the conviction that comes with a 99 mph fastball. All this probably. It's a gift, the moment in your life where you are exactly what you knew, except perhaps that the curveball is not particularly cooperative, when about 50,000 people are present to testify, and they know and you know that you are impenetrable. And that's just beginning.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers did not win 5-2 Monday afternoon, though Buehler was only brutal and probably overexposed to the Colorado Rockies, though the Rockies had won nine wins in 10 games 11 games. But this path would not have been so simple and should have faced a sort of game of wrestlers in Chicago and Jon Lester, which is now the problem of the Rockies and not theirs.

As at the 163rd meeting, a lot of time and effort was needed, as in the Rockies, and they lived for a long time with the idea that they were underperforming. It was always the fully talented and well-supplied Dodgers who seemed to be slowing down from the start, who never really seemed to shake the seventh game, but a division game against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday – at home, with some rest, behind Clayton Kershaw – also seems normal. Closer to the right.

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So, yes, the way to the World Series was better when Buehler did not allow a shot before it was released in the sixth inning, his 19th batter. When Buehler arrived with a fastball that settled at 98 mph, it rose to 99, when the Rockies chased the fastball and the kid was more than happy to live with a harmless touch. When Buehler was still in the seventh inning, up 5-0, the outs still came.

If you would like to see a group of adult men line up behind a child at a time that they find very important, give them one of those twisted smiles and a fast whistling ball, a fastball that buzzes inside. and destroys Trevor Story's stick in the second run, a slider that cheats Nolan Arenado before that, a flawless repertoire that feeds his moxie and a moxie that feeds his flawless repertoire.

"I had no doubt," said Dave Roberts, director of the Dodgers. "There are about 38 other players and coaches out there who also have no doubts."

Kershaw, who has become quite impenetrable and knows his capricious elements, calls it a factor of competitiveness.

"His competition," said Kershaw, "is off the charts."

He then smiled a few minutes from Buehler's mid-game when pitching coach Rick Honeycutt came looking for Buehler before the sixth inning and found him in deep conversation with Kershaw and Rich Hill. The problem, it seemed, was Buehler's curveball. It was a little futzy, it just came out of his hand, so he caught the two veterans with two of the best curves of the game and asked for a brief tutorial. Seventy launches in his departure. Seeing that there was probably not enough time to rebuild his curve in the corridor behind the canoe, he was advised to believe it, to let him go, to trust him. It will be fine.

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