What’s more important is that Opening Day starter José Ureña had a very fine outing in his last pre-regular season tune up. Prior to today’s contest, Ureña he pitched 10 2/3 innings and surrendered 13 hits and five walks, an untenable 1.688 WHIP with only nine strikeouts. Today’s performance was far more in line with what we are hoping for from him with the Miami Marlins in 2019.
Ureña faced the minimum over his three innings, inducing two ground-ball outs, two fly-ball outs, one line-out, and two pop-outs. He also collected two strikeouts to boot, and didn’t walk anybody either.