Even in defeat, Urias cherishes ‘beautiful experience’

LOS ANGELES — Bret Saberhagen missed witnessing history by 24 hours. The former Royals ace attended Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium but was a few miles away at his Southern California home on Wednesday when 20-year-old Dodger Julio Urias took the mound for Game 4, and eclipsed Saberhagen as the youngest pitcher in Major League history to start a postseason game.

Urias called it “a beautiful experience” despite the result, a 10-2 loss in which he worked 3 2/3 innings and the Cubs’ slumping offense awakened at the left-hander’s expense. Urias was 20 years, 68 days old on Wednesday, 107 days younger than Saberhagen was for the Royals for Game 2 of the 1984 American League Championship Series against the Tigers.

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“A lot of people ask me, ‘You were 19 years old when you got called up to the big leagues — how did you do that stuff?'” Saberhagen said. “I just think that’s what I was supposed to be doing. I didn’t know any different.

“I really thrived on big …

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