Mexican pitcher Julio Urías became the first Mexican-born pitcher to generate a career with a hit in a Major League postseason of all time, and the fourth Mexican pitcher to tow in any situation, behind the ‘Toro de Etchohuaquila’, Fernando Valenzuela, Jaime García and Yovani Gallardo.
The pitcher stood at the plate in the second inning with a pair of outs in the score, when he hit the bat and generated a single through right field, with the hit sending the register to Chris Taylor for the first race of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second game of the National League Divisional Series against the San Francisco Giants.
In the following video you can check the hit of Uriah in what was the first attack of the Angelenos in their duel against their neighbors in San Francisco.
The Sinaloan He entered the game with a negative record in two postseason at-bats (four previous games) and went 2-for-1 with a strikeout in the second inning.
The left-handed pitcher had multiple at-bats in 18 playoff games, one in the 2016 National League Championship Series against the Chicago Dogs and another in front of Washington Nationals in the 2019 National League Division Series.
Among the best Mexican pitchers
The data is not minor, Urías generated nine races, after sending only four to the register in five previous years.
Tonight, Urías caught up with other Mexican Major League Baseball (MLB) figures, players like Fernando “Toro” Valenzuela, who was the first pitcher to generate a career in the postseason period, in his first season in October 1981, precisely with Tom Lasorda’s Dodgers, against the missing Montreal Expos in the fifth game of the season. National League Championship Series.
The other two pitchers achieved the achievement in the same series and with only two days apart, one with the Brewers and the other with the Cardinals, Yovani Gallardo drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the third game of the Championship Series. 2011, in the duel he lost his squad by 4 runs to 3.
Meanwhile, Jaime García produced a career with the Cardinals, to his bad luck he left without a decision, a couple of days after Gallardo did.
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