Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Walker Buehler initially feared the worst when he felt discomfort in his right shoulder.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what happens after Buehler already went through a couple of significant injuries in his MLB career. <\/p>\n
But following further diagnosis of his injury, Buehler can rest easy knowing that it\u2019s not severe. The Red Sox placed the veteran right-hander<\/a> on the 15-day injured list Friday due to bursitis in his pitching shoulder. Buehler doesn\u2019t expect it to be a very long stay on the IL.<\/p>\n \u201cI was just concerned that it was something more than it was and luckily it wasn\u2019t,\u201d Buehler told reporters prior to Sunday\u2019s loss to the Minnesota Twins<\/a> at Fenway Park, per MassLive\u2019s Chris Cotillo<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m a guy that has pitched through a lot of things. The fact it was just bursitis and I had to go on the IL is embarrassing for me in some ways. I think there are certain things you have to check off during the week to be able to go and start a major league game and I wasn\u2019t able to do those things. All in all, I think it\u2019s the right thing. Hopefully, I miss two or maybe a third start, but it shouldn\u2019t be anything major.\u201d<\/p>\n Buehler said he started experiencing an issue with his shoulder during his April 15 start against the Tampa Bay Rays. The ailment didn\u2019t impact the results on the mound for the 30-year-old, though. After a tough start to the season, Buehler went 3-0 over his last four starts with a 2.59 ERA and held opponents to a .209 batting average to go along with 22 strikeouts in 24 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n The Red Sox shut down Buehler, who underwent Tommy John surgery twice while with the Los Angeles Dodgers, from throwing for three days and he also received an MRI. Buehler got an injection in his shoulder to help with the injury as well. He is expecting to play catch Monday and if all goes well with his rehab, he will return around May 14 when he\u2019s first eligible to come off the IL. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Going on the IL certainly isn\u2019t the route Buehler wanted to take, but in the long run, he knows that\u2019s it\u2019s best for him and the Red Sox.<\/p>\n \u201cMy past four (starts) I\u2019ve been pretty happy,\u201d Buehler said. \u201cObviously, not the time that you want to go in the IL, when you\u2019re feeling pretty good. At the end of the day, I\u2019m here in Boston to play in October and I\u2019m trying to get this stuff put to bed now so I can progress through the season. It\u2019s the right idea. It\u2019s not something I want to deal with for two or three or four months and try and keep dragging myself out there. I\u2019d rather clean it up and hopefully build on what we have been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Walker Buehler initially feared the worst when he felt discomfort in his right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-3183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-walker-buehler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114453180817436842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}