The Dodgers’ Mexican pitcher carries one of his worst win-loss statistics thanks to his team’s performance on offense
Not being backed by his offense, Julio Urías has four losses that could have been avoided (Photo: John Leyba-USA TODAY Sports)
Far from the outstanding moment that led him to become the pitcher with the most games won in the 2021 season , Julio Cesar Urias AcostaHe is going through one of the most difficult moments of his career. Although the most recent starts he has had have left good numbers on defense, the offensive picture has not been effective when the Mexican gets on the mound. In that sense, he has had to suffer unfair defeats.
His percentage of effectiveness is one of the best throughout of his career, with 2.49. However, throughout 10 starts he has consolidated a record of three wins for four losses and three games without a decision . Even though he has a better figure than the star pitcher Walker Buehler (3.22), the American has a better record of victories, since in the same number of starts he already registers six wins and one loss .
The differential factor lies in the role played by the line up chosen by Dave Roberts when Urías appears as the starter. The Los Angeles Dodgers have one of the best offensive teamsof the entire league thanks to personalities like Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Trea Turner, Will Smith, Justin Turner, Chris Taylor, among others, but his performance has not been the most constant.
The native of Culiacán, Sinaloa, dreams of repeating his record of 20 wins in the season (Photo: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports)
The quality of the squad has been reflected in the average of runs scored per nine innings. Until Monday, May 30, the harvest of the ninth Angelina was 7.01 touchdowns per game, a situation that has favored Buehler. However, when Culichi is in charge of opening the match, his team’s offensive average has dropped to 2.20 runs for nine rolls.
One of the most recent examples of this paradox was recorded on May 25, 2022. Inside Nationals Park, Julio Urías was designated to open the game against Washington and throughout the six innings he led, he only allowed four hits, one earned run, three walks and the same number of strikeouts. At his exit, Yency Almonte took his place and did not allow any more annotations.
Despite the good performance, none of his team’s batters was able to step on the rubber to score a run. Even 10 players were able to reach base and had the opportunity to break the zero, but none of them materialized the situation. The result was controversial, because in the previous two games of the same series, the Dodgers won by 10 runs against 1, as well as 9-4. One day after Urías left, they even beat the Arizona Diamondbacks by 14 to 1.
Julio Urías got his most recent victory against the Philadelphia Phillies (Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports)
The most recent victory that the Mexican claimed was on May 20, when his team managed to beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the first game of the series inside Citizens Bank Park.
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On the night of May 31, 2022, Julio Urías will have the opportunity to make his 11th opening of the season. After losing six runs to five on the Dodger Stadium court, the Lefty, as well as the lineup chosen by Dave Roberts, bear the responsibility ofevening the series, as well as his career-high at four and four.
So far, the Dodgers sit atop the Western Conference in the National League with a statistic of 33 wins against 15 losses. In second and third place are the San Diego Padres, as well as the San Francisco Giants, who are 3 and 6.5 games ahead, respectively, with 113 games to play.