Dodgers Postgame: Walker Buehler discusses his encouraging start, feeling more like himself

Published: Aug 28, 2024 Duration: 00:04:21 Category: Sports

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overall this first um yeah I mean in general I think pretty encouraging obviously my last start I I kind of talked about feeling more like myself and and tonight I think it was that but but more and obviously kind of some weird plays in that game and and that you know it happens like it is what it is and uh you know make a better pitch Falls play all that kind of but um no I felt a lot better I'm as encouraged as I've been since you know 2021 probably cutter was like down C fast cutter that potential just like what you had a feel for I mean if you if you look back in my career that's kind of been what I do I've obviously had times where I I feel really good about the slider and and you know at times like throwing decent change UPS here and there but really I I throw four seams Cutters and change ups and um you know kind of getting rid of the big slider and and trying to make the cutter a little bigger to right I think is a big thing for me obviously they they had seven lefties in there today so um didn't have to do it a ton of that but um yeah all in all I think kind of the the basics of pitching with my delivery is is Right seem a lot easier throwing strikes throwing first pit strikes throwing curveball for strike throwing curveball under I think I think all of it seems a little um easier I guess when when my body is in the right place now you know I think we keep talking about performing and and obviously the the line isn't as good as as I would like to be but you know I felt I feel very encouraged by by tonight how do you separate the two the weird plays the bad defense the numbers that might look a little ugly from the progress you feel you're making yeah I mean I think the the longer I've been here the more we look at these kind of like underlying numbers stuff and and all of that and I think tonight was probably one of my better starts in a long time from swinging Miss strike percentage things like that and so you kind of have to trust that and and believe that you know it's all going to even out or whatever but um you know it's one of the better offenses in in baseball right now and I felt like at least I had like a fighting chance to get everybody out it wasn't kind of like I hope they get themselves out I felt like I could get guys out and um you there's bits and pieces that didn't go perfectly like that but for the most part I felt pretty competitive when you talk about feeling like yourself is that with the mechanics is it just the way you're able to attack guys tonight what is yeah honestly the biggest thing is if I just pick my leg up and throw a ball and not think about it like it needs to be a strike and it it hasn't been for a long time and um you know in the bullpen last before the last start it felt like that it didn't really play out that way but tonight it was kind of in there and and I didn't have to um cue it if that makes sense I didn't have to like tell myself to do something to hope it worked out um I felt just a lot more like I picked up my leg and was able to kind of throw the ball over the plate at least is that something that you think just comes with time as you come back this year just yeah I mean it's it's time it's delivery it's mindset it's all of the stuff and you know I probably made it harder on myself the way that I think about pitching in terms of of all the tinkering and all that stuff like it it probably has made this process longer and whatnot but um you know at least today and and when I go to sleep tonight I I'll feel like I kind of um am somewhat myself again and and that's that's a big big thing for me did you say this is the most you felt like yourself since 21 yeah I mean 22 I didn't have very many game one one good game that I remember and other than that I you know I think I think tonight was my best start I had the one game here against Cincy but I thought I threw the ball better tonight it just kind of worked out a little differently than I would have wanted but um in terms of the ball doing what I wanted and and being where I wanted and velocity and shapes and all the kind of other that we talk about like I I think tonight was probably the best I've thrown the ball

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