Gerrit Cole misplaced it rapidly Wednesday. In what had been billed as a battle of the Yankees ace and the one which acquired away, Cole acquired hammered. He let it snowball on him early and the Bombers couldn’t dig themselves out towards new Seattle ace Luis Castillo.
The Mariners routed the Yankees 7-3 in a matinee on the Stadium to clinch the three-game sequence.
The Yankees (70-36) have misplaced two straight video games and misplaced their sixth sequence of the season. The Mariners (57-49) received their first sequence of their final 10 towards the Bombers.
“It’s kind of hard to believe how much it just blows up so quick,” Cole lamented after the sport. “I’m attempting to be glorious on the market and clearly not. Obviously, the sport is letting us know we’re not there.
“So we gotta keep grinding,” Cole stated. “I mean it doesn’t feel good. We let a series get away from us because of a very poor first inning today and that’s on me.”
Cole allowed six runs, only one shy of his season-high, on seven hits, together with three house runs. He walked one and struck out eight.
Cole gave up all six runs within the first inning, probably the most he has ever allowed in an inning. Adam Frazier hit a leadoff single off him and he walked Jesse Winkler. Eugenio Suarez crushed a dangling slider for a three-run homer to left discipline. Carlos Santana then turned on a four-seam fastball for a solo shot. It was the second time this season the Mariners have hit homers in back-to-back at-bats.
But they weren’t completed.
After getting Kyle Lewis to strike out, former Mets prospect Jarred Kelenic hammered a changeup for a two-run shot, his fourth of the season.
“I think it’s sometimes easier to remember the bad stuff than it is the good stuff, but there were some bad pitch selections,” Cole stated. “There were some bad pitches. And, we got punished for it again.”
Cole acquired 12 swings and misses on his four-seam fastball, a pitch he and Kyle Higashioka stated they need to have leaned on earlier.
“Obviously, we started off with the unfortunate seeing-eye single, but then it spiraled a little bit out of control,” the catcher stated. “And looking back, I think we could use the fastball a little more.”
When Cole and Higashioka adjusted to what the catcher described as “passive hitters,” they retired 17 of the ultimate 19 batters they confronted. Cole did get by way of six innings to avoid wasting the bullpen some heavy lifting.
Inconsistent is how Cole’s season has gone. He has flirted with a no-hitter and had 5 begins this season the place he has given up 5 earned runs. He has allowed 14 earned runs over his final 18 innings pitched.
“In terms of the overall season, I’m looking to try to continue to improve. We’ve had good ones. We’ve had clunkers. We’ve gotten baseballed. But we’re trying to take all those things that we learned from those games and keep trying to get better,” Cole stated. “So the numbers are what the numbers are. We’ve got to be performing the way we want to perform to the level of excellence by the time October comes.”
The Yankees are betting on Cole and their skinny beginning pitching depth in October.
They had tried to get Castillo into that rotation, however the Mariners acquired him from the Reds. He allowed three runs on 5 hits, hanging out eight over 6.2 innings in his Mariners debut Wednesday.
When the Yankees didn’t get Castillo, they pivoted to Frankie Montas, who they acquired from the A’s with Lou Trivino for a haul of the Yankees’ up-and-coming pitching prospects. After dealing away huge league starter Jordan Montgomery Tuesday for injured outfielder Harrison Bader, there may be not a number of depth left.
“That knocks into our depth a little bit, but we’re able to add Frankie Montas which is pretty good,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “[Clarke Schmidt is] happening to try to get stretched out slightly bit to offer us some extra depth. We be ok with the place [Luis Severino’s] going to be finally.
“We’re definitely a little fitter based on yesterday’s move, but hopefully if we remain healthy we feel like we’re going to be in a really good spot heading down the stretch and what we hope is into the playoffs and beyond.”
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