The Latest Breaking News from Walker Buehler

LOS ANGELES — Walker Buehler awoke after surgery last month, received the news he had been quietly bracing to hear, then put himself back in a familiar state of mind.

LOS ANGELES — The worst-case scenario has come true for Walker Buehler.

MILWAUKEE — Walker Buehler will not return for the Dodgers this season.

Walker Buehler, the Dodgers’ top starting pitcher, is slowly working his way back from mid-June surgery to remove bone spurs in his elbow. Another lower-back injury sent Clayton Kershaw, the three-time National League Cy Young Award winner, to the injured list last week for the second time this season.

SAN FRANCISCO — Clayton Kershaw knew right away that something was wrong.

LOS ANGELES — There was an eruption from the crowd. Air horns over the PA system. And, in a dramatic scene in the bottom of the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, a cathartic relief from one of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ most struggling hitters.

LOS ANGELES — In the fifth inning of the All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, a chant arose from the outfield pavilions.

LOS ANGELES — For the rest of the National League West, the view is very familiar.

LOS ANGELES — In a season during which Clayton Kershaw has broken the team strikeout record and Sandy Koufax will get a statue, the Dodgers' legendary pitching legacy just added a new ace.