Dodgers star fires back at ‘everybody’ who talked ’s—-‘ after beating Yankees

Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler couldn’t have scripted his first career save any better than this.
Buehler, who missed the entire 2023 season after undergoing a second Tommy John surgery, struck out two in a perfect ninth inning to clinch the World Series in Wednesday’s Game 5 win over the Yankees.
It also marked Buehler’s first relief appearance since his rookie season in 2018.
After the win, the unlikely hero delivered a message to all of the haters that viewed the Dodgers’ 2020 World Series championship differently due to the shortened COVID-19 season.
The Dodgers won a neutral-site World Series against Tampa Bay in 2020 after a 60-game regular season. They also missed out on a parade due to the pandemic.
“Obviously for me personally, two years off, two surgeries, it’s a lot for our organization. We deserve this,” Buehler said via MLB on FOX. “We have been playing really good baseball for a lot of years. Everybody talks sh— about 2020 and whatever, but they can’t say a whole lot about it now.”
According to Josh Dubow of the Associated Press, Buehler is the second pitcher to win a game as a starter in the World Series and then save the clincher since saves became official in 1969. Madison Bumgarner first accomplished the feat in 2014 with the San Francisco Giants.
The win marks the Dodgers eighth championship and seventh since leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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