Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Walker Buehler was starting to find his footing coming into Wednesday against the Houston Astros.

At the end of June, Buehler had a 6.45 ERA in 14 starts. He wasn’t throwing strikes and consistently failed to get through five innings.

More recently, Buehler made some tweaks to get back on track. Entering Wednesday’s game, he had a 3.27 ERA over his previous six starts. The Red Sox were 5-1 in those games.

Buehler surrendered a leadoff home run to Jeremy Pena, followed by a second run in the 1st inning, but buckled down after that. He got through the next four innings unscathed and looked to be on his way to another quality start.

In the sixth inning, he recorded two quick outs but issued a two-out walk to Victor Caratini and then hung a sweeper that Yani

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