LOS ANGELES — Change the calendar, turn the page.
For the first time, the left-hander from Culiacán, Mexico, got the call to be the club’s Opening Day starter. Not Clayton Kershaw, who has thrown on Day 1 a franchise-record nine times, or Walker Buehler, who got that job last season but is out now after undergoing Tommy John surgery a second time.
Urias threw 57 of his 79 pitches for strikes, a quality start to what could be his final season with the Dodgers – if they whiff on keeping him.