Tag Archives: Joe Moeller

One time LAD 1 – 0 Losers

Bringing this little 1 – 0 loser arc thread to a close we now look at all the pitchers who lost one game 1 – 0.  This is a fun list with many names you won’t see often, combined with two of the greatest pitchers of any era. Several scrapheap projects. Al Downing had been part …

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Urias ends season needing one more K

to tie Ralph Branca for most strikeouts for a Dodger by the end of their age 19 baseball season. Obviously,  Julio Urias holds the LAD record for most strikeouts for a LAD by the end of his 19-year-old baseball season, having passed Joe Moeller months ago. Joe had 46 and his record stood since 1964. …

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Julio Urias moving up the strikeout leaderboard for baseball season 19 or younger

On July 21st, Julio Urias broke Joe Moellers fifty-four-year-old record for LAD strikeouts for a teenager by fanning four in his 7/21/16 start giving him 48 compared to Joe’s 46. Since that time Julio Urias has struck out another 28 giving him 76 for the season and is now tied with Don Gullet for 8th …

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Julio Urias making history

Link to the Julio Urias category page: [2016 Postseason Update] Urias appeared as a relief pitcher on Oct 13th making him the youngest pitcher to pitch in an NLDS game. Urias threw two shutout innings, partial because of a 3rd base coach boner. It was the game that inspired the “Kershaw Saves ” T-Shirt and …

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Dodger teen-age phenom prospect Julio Urias turned 18 today – what Los Angeles Dodgers debuted as teen-agers?

  Arguably the best pitching prospect in the Dodger system turned 18 years old today. Julio Urias raised eyebrows all over baseball when he was pitching in Low A ball at the tender age of 16. He has spent all of this summer pitching in High A ball as a 17-year-old, but that all changed …

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