The up and down season for Julio Urias had another down this week with a rough outing against the Cardinals. The Dodger left-hander allowed 6 runs in 3 innings, all in a third inning where he served up 4 home runs. It was his third start of the season allowing 5 or more earned runs and actually led the team to look into potential pitch tipping. The investigation yielded different results.
Julio just hasn’t been all that good.
“I just think it’s been bad pitches,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “If you look at those pitches, there were some non-competitive pitches and the balls that they slugged, they were center cut.