Yankees.com: Cole not ‘super concerned’ after calf cramp ends his night

Yankees starter Gerrit Cole wasn’t “super concerned” when he felt a cramp in his right calf as he warmed up to pitch the seventh inning of Monday’s 8-4 win over the Rangers at Globe Life Field. But he also didn’t think it was worth trying to pitch through, given the circumstances and New York leading 7-1 at the time.

“I just didn’t think it was the right situation to keep trying to manipulate it out there,” he said.

Instead, the veteran right-hander cut his night short after throwing six innings of one-run ball, with nine strikeouts and one walk. He retired the final nine batters he faced.

I would have preferred him to say, “Not concerned at all,” but honestly, even the fact that he was trying to give it a go in the seventh made me think that he was probably not THAT hurt.

Great performance by him. I think his shitty job against Washington was undersold in how damaging it is when your one no doubt about it star pitcher has a shitty performance. This was a nice bounceback result (Cole getting high fives on the way out of the game is the featured image).

Clay Holmes, though, did not fare as well. He needed Gleyber Torres making a nice play on a line drive to get out of bringing the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning despite entering the game with a five-run lead and a single runner on first. Just let Jake Cousins close! Even when Cousins struggled on Sunday, it wasn’t like Cousins got rocked (it was KAHNLE who got rocked).

The offense was very nice. Anthony Rizzo in the seven hole (and, more importantly, DJ LeMahieu and Ben Rice NOT in the lineup) is huge. Anthony Volpe as a #8 hitter is a lot better overall. This is a deep lineup. Even Verdugo is a pretty good number nine hitter (but I’d be much happier if Dominguez was hitting seventh, Rizzo eighth and Volpe ninth).

Jazz Chisholm has a 1.041 OPS as a Yankee with 9 homers and 10 steals in 24 games. The number one place they NEEDED to upgrade was at third base, and they did so very nicely. It would be nice if Mark Leiter Jr. could stop sucking ass, though. Also, we kept hearing how the Yankees weren’t thrilled with Scott Effross’ stuff in the minors, even though he was getting good results for the last month, but then they called him up anyways?! Huh?! Just let the dude get healthy, people.