Los Angeles Moving

Otherwise, Buehler, working off a fastball he was commanding with precision, did not encounter peril. The 24-year-old didn’t surrender a second hit until Idelmaro Vargas smacked a single with two outs in the eighth inning. The closest he came to issuing a walk was in the fifth inning when he fired a 98-mph fastball to Vargas with the count full. Vargas thought the pitch, down and in, was ball four. Home-plate umpire Gary Cederstrom called it a strike to end the inning. Buehler took exception to Vargas’ opinion of the pitch, barking at him, expletive included, as he strutted off the mound.