From Bryan Hoch:
Gerrit Cole knew what he had seen in real time, but still he reached for the dugout iPad as though an alternate angle might shift his opinion. Jacket slung across his shoulders, the Yankees’ ace watched the video frame by frame, then tossed the device toward the bench with disgust.
Just as he’d expected, that four-seamer to José Ramírez caught too much of the plate – among the first runs Cole has allowed all season, and one of three homers he surrendered in the Yankees’ 5-4 loss to the Guardians on Wednesday evening at Yankee Stadium.
Boy, Cam Schlittler and Gerrit Cole sure picked a bad time to have their worst games of the season. As bad as the Yankees offense has been, they obviously could have won both of the games with better pitching. Four runs in each game isn’t BAD, really.
But this Judge thing needs to be resolved one way or the other, as the Yankees can’t keep running Jose Caballero out there as their starting right fielder. Having Spencer Jones to play right field so that Cabby can play shortstop and/or third base would be a big help to the offense.
The Yankees don’t seem to plan well for teams that just put the ball in play like the Guardians and the Blue Jays. As we saw when Doval got BABIP-ed to death in Game 1 of this series (fuck Doval in general, but that game, specifically, was kind of insane). However, interestingly enough, this game, while it did have ONE instance of a run scoring off of good BABIP luck, mostly it was home runs. Three home runs allowed is way too many.
A team that puts the ball in play is also really bad news for Rodon this afternoon. This looks to be a sweep.
Featured image is Jose Ramirez continuing to kill the Yankees.
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