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- Updated: May 28, 2016
NEW YORK — Baseball wasn’t a young man’s game Friday night at Citi Field.
In his Major League debut, 19-year-old Dodgers phenom Julio Urias couldn’t get out of the third inning. But 37-year-old Chase Utley silenced a deafening crowd of haters with a game-tying three-run double in the top of the ninth inning for the Dodgers, only for 35-year-old Curtis Granderson to slug a walk-off homer leading off the bottom of the frame as the Dodgers lost the series opener, 6-5.
Urias’ debut couldn’t possibly live up to the hype of the previous 24 hours, but the Dodgers were anticipating something better than a 36-pitch first inning and a 2 2/3-inning start out of their No. 1 prospect. That made for a rugged beginning to a difficult trip — three games against the Mets followed by four at Wrigley Field with the Cubs. The bullpen already has picked up 5 1/3 innings (Chris Hatcher and Joe Blanton allowed home runs), and iron man Clayton Kershaw won’t give it a day off until Sunday.
Was Urias nervous?
“I was,” he admitted. “I’m not going to lie, when I went out there, I started thinking of everything I’ve had to go through to get here. But when I was on the mound, I was able …
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