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During a season in which so many young stars dominated the headlines, its fitting that 20-year-old Julio Urias?(20 years, 68 days) of the Los Angeles Dodgers will become the youngest starting pitcher in postseason history. Preston Smith Super Bowl Jersey . Hell have a lot less pressure after the Dodgers won Game 3 to take the series lead, and hell face a Cubs team that is hitting .152 off left-handers in the postseason.I thought it would be fun to look at the 10 youngest pitchers to start in the playoffs. Most performed well in their first start and went on to have excellent careers.Bret Saberhagen, 1984 Royals, ALCS Game 2 (20 years, 175 days)Pitching line: 8 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 5 SO (ND)Saberhagen had been a good prospect entering his senior year of high school in Reseda, California, but hurt his shoulder, lost his delivery and scouts lost interest. A Royals scout named Guy Hansen, however, saw him and recommended the Royals draft him, which they did, although not until the 19th round. He sat out his draft year, spent one season in the minors, and was in the majors at age 20. At age 21, he became a Cy Young Award winner and World Series hero, pitching a shutout in Game 7 of the 1985 World Series. Hed win another Cy Young Award and win 167 games, although he battled injuries throughout his career. Lane Taylor Super Bowl Jersey . It was Kerbers third final of the year after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in Monterrey in April and to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic in Tokyo two weeks ago. The 10th-ranked German improved her record in finals to 3-5. Clay Matthews Super Bowl Jersey . "It was nerve-wracking, but we pulled through," said Collaros, who threw four touchdown passes to lead the Toronto Argonauts (8-4) to a 33-27 win over the Calgary Stampeders (9-3) in front of 28,781 fans at McMahon Stadium. http:///...ones-packers-jersey/ . Canada is now down to its 22-player limit, although but players wont be registered until Christmas Day. Changes could still be made as a result of a suspension or injury. BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Nico Rosberg of Mercedes posted by far the fastest lap during the second practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday.Teammate Lewis Hamilton was unhurt after crashing sideways into a barrier of rubber tires, Mercedes said. Hamilton was able to drive the car back to the pit lane and later returned to the team garage after a medical checkup.Mercedes said Hamiltons car would be fully stripped to be checked out, but jokingly noted it appears to bounce rather well.Hamilton, who set the pace in the morning practice, also had the fastest time before crashing at turn 11, about 13 minutes into the afternoon session. Rosberg quickly bettered Hamiltons mark with a time of 1 minute, 20.435 seconds, the only driver below 1:21.It was an impressive day for us, performance-wise, Rosberg said. That doesnt necessarily mean well be in such a strong position tomorrow but its very positive. The car is very quick, so a good start to the weekend.Rosbergs time was already 1.585 seconds faster than last years top qualifying time, achieved by Hamilton.Red Bulls Daniel Ricciardo was second, 0.595 behind the championship leader, with Ferraris Sebastian Vettel, the 2015 Hungaroring winner, finishing third.We are more or less where we expected to be, Ricciardo said. We knew it would be close with Ferrari, so if we can keep our nose in front that would be nice.Max Verstappen of Red Bull was fourth and Hamilton, despite completing only four laps before his accident, was fifth.Lewis was caught out by one of the new, unpainted kerbs ... resulting in quite a heavy impact with the barriers, said Paddy Lowe, the technical executive director for Mercedes. The most important thing is that Lewis was unharmed despite the impact. There has been some damage to suspension and a few bodywork elements -- but this will be easily fixed overnight.The Hungaroring is sporting a repaved track and pit lane while several kerbs have been added or upgraded, with track length remaining at 4.38 kilometers (2.72 miles).Veteran drivers like Hamilton and Vettel did not appear keen on the changes beffore the practice sessions. David Bakhtiari Super Bowl Jersey. By late Friday, however, most concerns seemed to have dissipated, Hamiltons mishap notwithstanding.The new track surface isnt massively different, said Ricciardo, who won here in 2014. I was a little bit worried it would lose some of its character, but I think its still much the same.Team officials were also taking the changes in stride and even attributed the faster times to the new setup.We were pleasantly surprised. The track is quite smooth, the kerbs are quite good, said Pat Symonds, chief technical officer with Williams. Were pretty happy with the work thats been done.Symonds added that while there had been talk of blistering in the tires during a European F3 race on the Hungaroring in April on the changed track, even the super-soft tires held up very well today.Ferrari senior engineer Jock Clear said his team had enjoyed reasonably comfortable practice sessions with the tires.We had some fears and theyve not really been founded today, Clear said. The kerbs are smoother ... certainly the kerbs are making a difference on lap time.At the same time, teams did complain about the longest-ever season of 21 races, including a globe-hopping stretch of six races in eight weeks at the end.Williams Symonds said 20 races had been considered the tipping point just a few years back and that employees were starting to prefer staying at team headquarters because of the race schedules toll on family life.I think were way past the tipping point, Symonds said. We cannot ask our personnel to maintain the level of activity. Therefore, were going to look at rotation.Clear agreed with Symonds, saying that people are just very tired and the sport did not have the luxury of using substitutes.Rosberg has 168 points halfway through the season, one point ahead of two-time defending world champion Hamilton. Mercedes has won nine of the first 10 races this season and 41 of the last 48.---Karel Janicek contributed to this report. ' ' '
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