What a crazy story. I didn’t expect it to come up in connection with postseason baseball…

The timing here is unclear, but ABC7 in Los Angeles reports that Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler was recently robbed when he and his wife were surrounded by a mob at Santa Anita Park, a horse racing venue.

The report originally said it just happened this weekend, but they have updated that they are looking for more details. In any case, a $100,000 watch was stolen from Buehler in the incident.

Buehler, of course, is preparing to pitch in Game 3 of the Dodgers’ NLDS series against the Padres tonight in San Diego. I’m sure he’ll manage to sort it out, but it’s also true that it’s a particularly bad time for such a serious incident/possible distraction.

The 30-year-old Buehler is heading to free agency after this season for the first time in his career, and he will be coming off a disappointing partial season (after returning from the second Tommy John surgery of his career and also with a hip loss). has to fight). Injury). He’s probably aiming for a provable contract in free agency in any case, but to the extent that he could make a great run in the postseason, it would probably help his prospects, especially since teams have already seen how good he was -injury.