Red Sox’s Walker Buehler Rips Himself After Awful Outing

Walker Buehler knows he isn’t living up to his end of the bargain…

Buehler, who signed a one-year, $21 million contract with the Boston Red Sox in December, has seen his numbers quickly dip over the course of 10 starts in 2025. The New York Yankees served as the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, however, as they crushed him to the tune of seven runs in two innings in a series-opening loss at Yankee Stadium on Friday, pushing his ERA to 5.18.

“This organization put a lot of faith in me this offseason and I’ve been (expletive) embarrassing for us,” Buehler said, per Christopher Smith of MassLive. “It’s tough. It’s obviously a big game and a big rivalry that I was excited to be a part of. And for it to go the way that it did is super disappointing, especially after the past two, three weeks of kind of prep and throwing and all that kinda (expletive) and how I’m feeling. Physically I feel great and for it to happen that way, it sucks.”

How does he fix it?

“I feel like I’ve said this for two years straight now but I feel like I’m getting closer as weird as that sounds,” Buehler said. “But for me to have kind of the four- or five- start stretch that I had right before I went on the IL of being largely successful and then to have these couple in a row is (expletive) super disappointing.”

The Red Sox desperately need for him, and several other starters, to get things together as time seems to be running out on the club’s chances of climbing back into contention.

Buehler showed he was capable of putting it all together, struggling in his first two starts before posting a 2.59 ERA over his next four and eventually landing on the injured list with right shoulder bursitis.

Boston will look to even its series with New York on Saturday, with first pitch scheduled for 7:35 p.m. ET on FOX.