From Steve Kornacki:
Detroit put the leadoff runner on in each of the first five innings Monday night at Comerica Park, and Yankees right-hander Gerrit Cole quickly shut the door in the first and second.
However, the Tigers scored in each of the next three innings as Cole allowed a season-high five runs in 4 1/3 innings during the Yankees’ 5-3 loss. Cole allowed nine hits — including a Statcast-projected 422-foot, 107.5 mph solo homer by Riley Greene off a 2-2 changeup that caught too much of the plate in the fifth.
Gerrit Cole just sucked. It happens sometimes. We’ve seen it from Cole in this ballpark, as well. I remember an outing he had in Detroit in 2022 when he couldn’t make it out of the third inning (they luckily won that one BY pulling him early. Maybe Boone should have done the same here).
Blackburn, by the way, continues to be a great long man. I guess you have to keep him over Yarbrough, right?
The Blue Jays are now back to .500 and are “just” 7.5 games back of the Yankees. Ruh roh.
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Escarra back up, Sanchez on the paternity list.
I wonder why. It wasn’t balls flying out, wasn’t air pressure or wall distance. They just kept getting hits.
Rice’s numbers continue to fall.