On Aug. 15, the day he was ejected for hitting Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. with his first pitch of the game, Jose Urena’s season was in shambles. The Marlins’ Opening Day starter was 3-12 and he was about to serve a six-game league suspension for the Acuna incident.
That was Urena’s nadir.
In the six weeks since, Urena has undergone a complete and unexpected transformation, resurrecting what had been a disaster of a season and turning it into one he can at least feel better about over the winter.
Urena notched his sixth straight winning decision Friday in what was his final start of the season, an 8-1 Marlins victory over the Mets, to improve his record to 9-12 while lowering his ERA under 4.