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The Sports Report: The Dodgers Turn To Julio Urías To Seal The Deal

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Dylan Hernández on the Dodgers: Mookie Betts grinned as he looked for the right words to depict Julio Urías.

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"Simply seems like Julio has this peculiar yet, similar to, well grounded person about him," Betts said. "He simply gets on the hill like he's been there, he's done it."

Since the Dodgers left-hander has.

Furthermore, this is the conundrum of Urías.

He's now six years into his significant association vocation. He's likewise just 25, which makes him the most established 25-year-old in baseball.

He was a possibility everlastingly, the discussions about him generally about the future, the future, what's to come.

Tomorrow has at last come.

Doled out a grown-up's responsibility interestingly, Urias grew up as a pitcher this season, beginning 32 ordinary season games, pitching 185 2/3 innings and turning into the game's first 20-game champ in quite a while.

On Thursday, the Mexican star will scale the hill at Oracle Park for the Dodgers in their most significant round of the period, Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the San Francisco Giants.

"I don't figure we could have any more trust in somebody going than we do in Julio," said right-hander Walker Buehler, who began Game 4 on Tuesday night.

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RAMS

Gary Klein on the Rams: Jon Gruden gave Rams mentor Sean McVay his first occupation in the NFL. He guided McVay, and the mentors have stayed close.

In any case, McVay said Wednesday he was astounded and disheartened by the substance of messages found during an examination of the Washington Football Team that prompted Gruden's abdication as mentor of the Las Vegas Raiders.

The email trades with previous Washington chief Bruce Allen included racial, homophobic and misanthropic remarks by Gruden, as per reports by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

"I have not seen that side of him," McVay said, "and I was amazed by it."

CHARGERS

Jeff Miller on the Chargers: The thought was planted back in the spring when the Chargers were going around in shorts and T-shirts.

New mentor Brandon Staley cautioned his offense not to expect a dropkick was coming since it was fourth down.

"Hello, man, don't get running going the field yet," focus Corey Linsley recalls Staley saying. "We could go for a fourth [down] in the event that we feel great, doesn't make any difference [where or when]."

The freshman mentor has finished those words. Through five games, the Chargers' offense is seven for seven on fourth down. The group's just flopped fourth-down endeavor came on a phony dropkick.

SOCCER

Kevin Baxter on soccer: World Cup qualifying is an odyssey not a roadtrip. Furthermore, the 14-game CONCACAF competition hasn't arrived at the midpoint yet.

In any case, it's not very ahead of schedule to make a few determinations about the U.S. Group, which struggled back from an early deficiency to beat Costa Rica 2-1 Wednesday in a game chose by a shot that caromed across the objective line off a reinforcement manager.

At 3-1-2 and with 11 focuses, useful for runner up after the initial two qualifying windows, the U.S. Is easily on target to win a spot in the following year's World Cup in Qatar. In any case, as with most odysseys, there are difficulties ahead.

PAC-12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Thuc Nhi Nguyen on Pac-12 ladies' b-ball: Ten years subsequent to starting as the lead trainer at Cal, Lindsay Gottlieb is back in the Pac. However, this isn't a similar gathering she left.

As Gottlieb takes over as mentor at USC, two years in the wake of leaving the work at Cal for the NBA, she gets back to the chief ladies' b-ball gathering in the country that flaunts guarding public top dog Stanford. To keep up and even push the Pac-12 forward, the previous Cleveland Cavaliers collaborator is inclining toward the information and connections acquired during her stretch in the NBA and is back as a "rendition 2.0" of the mentor who drove California to the Final Four of every 2013.

"What's most unique is I'm unique," Gottlieb said at Tuesday's Pac-12 media day of how she has changed since starting at Cal in 2011. "The viewpoint I bring is unique. You simply gain information with the years and gain associations with players. You sort out some way to associate with various individuals, various styles, so I believe I'm somewhat more confident and know a couple of more things as far as allowing it to come to me."

Similarly as Gottlieb has developed, so too has the meeting. Six Pac-12 groups made the NCAA competition last year, three progressed to the territorial finals and two — Arizona and Stanford — played in the public title game.

In any case, the Trojans are falling behind. USC has missed the NCAA competition the last seven seasons.

In the wake of dominating 20 matches and progressing to the competition in seven of her eight seasons in Berkeley, Gottlieb is sure the Trojans can get up to speed.

"I don't believe it's messed up," Gottlieb said. "There's not an absence of ability in the room. There's not an absence of readiness. I believe it's simply they need a pioneer to show them the bearing."

PAC-12 MEN'S BASKETBALL

Ben Bolch on Pac-12 men's b-ball: UCLA's raced to the Final Four was amazing; the Bruins being the mind-boggling top pick to win the Pac-12 men's b-ball title was not.

The media picked UCLA on Wednesday to win the meeting in its preseason survey in a runaway, the Bruins catching everything except two of the 34 ahead of everyone else votes. Shielding Pac-12 top dog Oregon, which got the other two votes, was picked to complete second.

USC, falling off an appearance in the Elite Eight that it was its most unimaginable NCAA competition run in 20 years, was projected to complete third. The Los Angeles Times doesn't cast a ballot in media surveys per its longstanding strategy.

Oregon State, one more NCAA competition shock that best in class to the Elite Eight after its hurry to the Pac-12 competition title, was picked in a tie for fourth close by Arizona, which is set to begin its first season under mentor Tommy Lloyd.

Rulers

Jack Harris on the Kings: Ahead of the Kings' season opener on Thursday night against the Vegas Golden Knights, the following are 10 things to think about their 2021-22 mission.

1. Last year … the Kings didn't begin horribly, going 13-11-6 over their initial 30 games in a troublesome Pacific Division. They blurred down the stretch, nonetheless, completing the abbreviated season with a 8-17-1 pallet to miss the postseason for a third sequential year.

2. Player to watch … Anze Kopitar, who last year counted a group high 50 focuses in the 56-game season, obscuring the 1,000 point mark for his vocation. Attracted Doughty likewise keeps on mooring the group's blue line, in the wake of completing second on the club last season with 34 focuses. The two veterans were key pieces in the Kings' last battling groups 10 years prior. To get back to importance this year, they'll probably have to lead the way once more.

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THIS DATE IN SPORTS

1945 — The Chicago Cardinals snap the longest losing streak in NFL history at 29 games with a 16-7 triumph over the Chicago Bears.

1951 — Detroit's Jack Christiansen returns two dropkicks for scores, however the Lions actually lose, 27-21, to the Los Angeles Rams.

1962 — Houston's George Blanda tosses six score passes to lead the Oilers to a 56-17 defeat of the New York Titans.

1967 — The Kings, driven by Brain Kilrea, beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 in their NHL debut. The game is held at Long Beach Arena. Kilrea scores two objectives, remembering the first for Kings history.

1978 — Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs gets seven aids a 10-7 triumph over the New York Islanders.

1979 — Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky scores his first NHL objective in a 4-4 bind with the Vancouver Canucks. Gretzky beats goaltender Glen Hanlon with the game-tying strategic maneuver objective with 1:09 excess in the third time frame.

1990 — Joe Montana passes for vocation highs of 476 yards and six scores and Jerry Rice ties a NFL record with five scoring gatherings as the San Francisco 49ers beat the Atlanta Falcons 45-35.

1991 — New York Rangers traditional Mike Gartner scores his 500th profession objective in the main time of a 5-3 misfortune to the Washington Capitals.

2005 — Ryan Newman establishes a NASCAR standard by winning his fifth back to back Busch Series race, the Charlotte 300 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

2006 — Mats Sundin scores his 500th profession objective, finishing a full go-around with an under-staffed additional time game-champ and giving Toronto a 5-4 triumph over Calgary. The third objective is Sundin's fifteenth in additional time — the most in NHL history.

2007 — Tom Brady of New England passes for 388 yards and a profession high five scores in a 48-27 success over already unbeaten Dallas. The five TDs gives Brady the NFL mark with something like three in every one of the initial six rounds of the period.

2011 — Japan's Kohei Uchimura turns into the principal man to win three titles at the world acrobatic titles in Tokyo. Uchimura gets done with 93.631 focuses in the men's inside and out, multiple focuses in front of Germany's Philipp Boy.

2012 — Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers sets a vocation high and ties an establishment record with six score passes, three to Jordy Nelson, and the Packers defeat the Houston Texans 42-24. Rodgers finishes 24 of 37 passes for 338 yards and ties Matt Fly