After an off-day spent traveling, the Los Angeles Dodgers began a seven-game road trip in New York on Friday night for the start of a three-game series with the Mets. The matchup featured a pair of young starters in Jacob deGrom and Julio Urias, with the latter making his Major League debut.
Chase Utley drew a leadoff walk in the first inning, but was caught stealing on a strike ’em out, throw ’em out with Corey Seager caught looking. deGrom then struck out Justin Turner swinging to end a scoreless first.
Urias’ first pitch in the Majors was a high fastball for ball one to Curtis Granderson. The at-bat ended with Granderson called out on strikes after working a full count.
Asdrubal Cabrera followed with a double and soon after advanced to third base on a wild pitch. Urias walked Yoenis Cespedes, then gave up an RBI double to Neil Walker. Juan Lagares poked a two-run single into center field by Seager’s extended arm.
Urias allowed another single before getting out of a laborious first inning in which he threw 36 pitches. Adrian Gonzalez grounded out and Howie Kendrick and Joc Pederson were called out on strikes in a quick second inning for deGrom.
Urias worked around a one-out walk in the bottom of the second to keep the Mets’ lead at 3-0. Yasiel Puig drew a leadoff walk in the third inning and went first to third base on a Yasmani Grandal flare single into right field.
deGrom was unable to field Urias’ bunt to the right side of the mound, allowing the Dodgers to load the bases with no outs. deGrom did however limit the damage to just one run on an Utley sacrifice fly.
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