{"id":45225,"date":"2025-05-22T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/45225\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:57:09","slug":"red-sox-walker-buehler-says-hed-do-the-same-as-francisco-lindor-who-was-almost-his-mets-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/45225\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox\u2019 Walker Buehler says he\u2019d \u2018do the same\u2019 as Francisco Lindor \u2014 who was almost his Mets teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014 Red Sox starter Walker Buehler had some fun on Twitter\/X<\/a> in the wake of his ejection in the third inning of Boston\u2019s win Tuesday. A day later, he said he wants his posts to speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

Buehler, who was ejected by home plate umpire Mike Estabrook after arguing a ball-strike call to Juan Soto in the third inning Tuesday<\/a>, posted twice on the social media platform early Wednesday morning. One tweet responded to Laz Diaz\u2019s characterization of the ejection and another commented on Mets star Francisco Lindor encouraging the umpiring crew to throw him out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said my piece \u2014 sponsored by Buffalo Trace<\/a> (bourbon) a little bit,” Buehler laughed.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Buehler threw a 1-0 pitch to Soto that was clearly a strike but Estabrook called it a ball after he didn\u2019t get a great look because catcher Carlos Narv\u00e1ez popped up to try to throw out Lindor, who was trying to steal second. Buehler repeatedly told the umpire that the pitch was \u201cright down the (expletive) middle\u201d and was ejected after a quick warning by Estabrook. Crew chief Laz Diaz told a pool reporter that it was an automatic ejection whenever a player left his position to argue balls and strikes<\/a>. Buehler responded to Diaz\u2019s explanation by noting that Estabrook walked toward him with a tweet reply asking \u201cwho cut the distance\u201d between the two men<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buehler originally declined comment on Estabrook\u2019s behavior, in clear fear of a fine. But once he saw Diaz\u2019s comments, he changed his mind.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not my place to talk on what they do or whatnot,\u201d he said Wednesday. \u201cBut if they are going to give an interview, I think I have the right to respond a little bit. Again, I\u2019m not gonna comment on what I think he\u2019s thinking. I said my piece about my side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buehler also quote-tweeted a video of Lindor egging on the umpires with<\/a>: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want me out there either. Sad thing is the BULLPEN is full of (expletive) animals. Tough choice.\u201d Before Wednesday\u2019s game, he said it was water under the bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all competitive,\u201c Buehler said. \u201dIt is what it is at that point. I\u2019d probably do the same if I was him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manager Alex Cora, who has a close relationship with Lindor, had breakfast with the shortstop in Boston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had breakfast with him this morning,\u201d Cora said. )I saw the Walker one… Trevor (Story) told me, too, he was doing the same thing (telling the umpires to eject Cora) when I was arguing. It is what it is. He\u2019s a good kid.”<\/p>\n

In explaining why tensions rose so quickly Tuesday, Buehler mentioned that he \u201chad a history with the Mets.\u201d That was likely in relation to an animated scene during Game 3 of last year\u2019s NLCS, when Buehler and Lindor exchanged words on the field<\/a>. In an ironic twist, however, a source indicated recently that the Mets made a hard push to sign Buehler this winter and had a real shot at signing him before he agreed to a one-year, $21.05 million deal with the Red Sox. Buehler confirmed those talks Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey definitely were one of the teams we had a lot of conversations with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Buehler remained regretful that he put Boston\u2019s bullpen in a bad spot with the ejection but was relieved that they combined for 6 \u2154 scoreless innings to preserve a 2-0 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all fun and games until you take a step back and realize I left our bullpen out to dry,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, they threw their ass off and kept us ahead and we win, but if one of those innings goes poorly and we lose, I think we look at it differently. For me, personally, putting our whole team in that situation, it\u2019s unacceptable and selfish. But it\u2019s something we\u2019ll move forward and learn from a little bit as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the relievers who pitched, a gift is in the mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did not get Buffalo Trace,\u201d he said. \u201cThey got another liquid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 Red Sox starter Walker Buehler had some fun on Twitter\/X in the wake of his ejection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[152,5,3194,14485],"class_list":{"0":"post-45225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-american-league","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-greenfly","11":"tag-warmup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225","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=45225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}