Thanks to a hustle double by Gleyber Torres in the fourth, the Yankees had a runner in scoring position with one out, and although he advanced to third on a fly ball to right by Gio Urshela, Brett Gardner was unable to bring him home. However, in typical 2021 fashion, the Yankees did threaten on more than one occasion. #AllRise /888SCY7fUx- New York Yankees July 11, 2021 And he went full Mike Mussina on manager Aaron Boone, who wanted to pull him for Aroldis Chapman with two outs in the ninth, demanding - with a few expletives - the opportunity to finish the game. He threw 129 pitches, the most pitches thrown by any pitcher in baseball since 2019. According to Statcast, he allowed only five hard-hit balls all day and limited Astros hitters to only a. In all, Cole absolutely eviscerated the Astros lineup that, albeit lacking Carlos Correa and Alex Bregman, is filled top-to-bottom with great hitters. The only other baserunners he allowed after that was a leadoff single by Gurriel in the seventh - after which he swiftly retired Álvarez, Kyle Tucker, and Toro - and a leadoff single by Altuve in the ninth, after which he induced a fly out to center after a ten-pitch battle with Brantley before striking out Gurriel and Álvarez to end the game. He then advanced into scoring position on a wild pitch during a Myles Straw strikeout, but there he remained when Cole got his good friend and old batterymate Martín Maldonado to ground out to second. The next inning he allowed his first hit, a one-out bloop single by Abraham Toro that clocked in at a very nice 69 mph off the bat. He didn’t allow a baserunner until the fourth inning, when he completely lost the strike zone and walked both Jose Altuve and Michael Bradley to put runners on first and second with nobody out a big strikeout of Yuli Gurriel and a 4-6-3 double play off the bat of Yordan Álvarez allowed him to escape the jam unscathed. Against the best lineup in the American League, he answered that question in a big way, allowing zero runs on three hits, striking out 12 and walking only two. bvWoOu6wMK- New York Yankees July 11, 2021Ĭoming into this game, the big question was whether Cole would be able to find the rhythm he had early in the season, during the Spider Tack days.
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