“I loved the fastball command and the delivery looked really good. “I was encouraged,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. The 22-year-old left-hander retired the side in order in the ninth inning of his first big-league game since undergoing major shoulder surgery. “Must be something in the water.”įor the first time since May 20, 2017, left-hander Julio Urias faced major-league hitters Saturday. “Some weirdos from upstate New York,” he teased. “He went to Cornell University and I went to Ithaca and they’re in the same city.

“Somebody was talking about it so I looked him up,” Locastro said. He knows that Hughie Jennings holds the major-league record for being hit by a pitch 287 times during a career that ran from 1891 through 1918 and landed him in the Hall of Fame.Īnd Locastro knows something else about Jennings. Keeps you on the field.”Įnough people have asked Locastro about his propensity for getting hit that he has learned some baseball history from it. But now … it’s just dumb not to wear anything so I wear it now. “One of my buddies used to say if you wear something like that, that’s a sign of weakness so I didn’t wear anything. When I’d get hit, she’d text me, ‘Are you all right?’ ‘Yeah, I’m all right.’ ‘Will you please wear an elbow guard?’

“Back home, she used to listen to it on the radio from Vancouver (the Blue Jays’ short-season Class-A affiliate) at night. “I wear the elbow guard now because of my mom,” he said. Locastro does wear an elbow guard to prevent damage … to his mother’s peace of mind. “It sort of pooled up with blood and I couldn’t play for awhile.” “One time in Rancho, I got hit in the hamstring flush and I continued to play on it for like two weeks,” Locastro said. Acquired from the Blue Jays in a minor-league trade in July 2015, Locastro has learned the tricks of the trade without consulting Dodgers veteran Chase Utley (eighth on the all-time list with 204 HBPs) – things like “the chicken wing,” dropping your arm to protect your ribs – and can only recall being injured by a pitch once.

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