Thread by @BermudezWrites, This is Julio Urías with his dad. The now 24-year-old Mexican pitcher [...]

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This is Julio Urías with his dad. The now 24-year-old Mexican pitcher finished the job and brought L.A. a World Series Dodgers win after nearly 32 years.

As a kid, Julio has a bad left eye but a thunderbolt left arm. He stepped into his first baseball league in Culiacan, Mexico, when he was five years old. https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2705743-the-revolution-is-at-hand-julio-urias-is-ready-to-be-las-next-great-star.amp.html

The Revolution Is at Hand: Julio Urias Is Ready to Be LA's Next Great Star

The kid was eight years old and throwing a perfect game. What else was new? Even at that age, Julio Urias had a bad left eye and a magnifico left arm. This isn't what he says, of course...

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Urías’s bad left eye was caused by a benign tumor that has been with him since birth.

He underwent three surgeries by the time he was two. As he grew, the swelling sort of molded to his bone structure around the eye. People were not sure if Urías could see out of it.

The pitching prodigy was eased into the major leagues as a teenager in 2016. He went from being treated with an abundance of caution by the Dodgers to becoming a workhorse. “As long as I’m healthy, I give it 100%,” Urías said. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2020-10-20/dodgers-julio-urias-goes-from-abundance-of-caution-to-workhorse%3f_amp=true

Dodgers' use of Julio Urías quickly goes from abundance of caution to workhorse

The Dodgers were extremely cautious with Julio Urías for years because of injuries and his youth. Then he threw more than 150 pitches in five days of the NLCS.

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In 2016, Urias’s dad, Carlos, proudly attended his son’s debut Dodgers game. He wasn’t nervous, he said. “I’m excited. It’s a dream to see my son on top of that little hill in a Major League game.” His son’s first pitch, he said, was proof of all the potential he saw in his boy.

“That's how God works. He gave me a bad left eye but a good left arm.” — Julio Urías #LosDoyers #WorldSeries