A brief word on Julio Urias and ‘CULICHI POWER.’

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NEW YORK — Dodgers team photographer Jon SooHoo snapped this picture of a meeting among Julio Urias, Yasmani Grandal and Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt this afternoon. You can’t see it very well because of the shoulder compress he’s wearing, but Urias is wearing a t-shirt that says “CULICHI POWER” on the front and back.

Urias is from Culiacan, the capital city of Sinaloa, a province in northern Mexico where baseball is particularly popular. Four natives of Culiacan have reached the major leagues: Oliver Perez, Arturo Lopez, Arnold Leon and Victor Alvarez. Urias will become the fifth today.

“Natives of Culiacan” is a clunky phrase, so there ought to be a catchy nickname. Culichi fills that void. I found a few of these t-shirts lying around the internet.

With just the proper amount of hype and performance, it could become a popular seller well beyond Culiacan.

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J.P. Hoornstra covers the Dodgers, Angels and Major League Baseball for the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Whittier Daily News and Redlands Daily Facts. Before taking the beat in 2012, J.P. covered the NHL for four years. UCLA gave him a degree once upon a time; when he graduated on schedule, he missed getting Arnold Schwarzenegger's autograph on his diploma by five months.