The two favorites for the AL Cy Young are playing in this series and baseball is focused on Jays starter Robbie Ray and our own Gerrit Cole. We watched Cole pitch last night, and we will see Ray pitch tonight against Corey Kluber. If Ray pitches a better game then Cole did....he may be the standout favorite.
We could all tell early on, Cole was not on his game and the Blue Jays sat back and capitalized on his mistakes. He did finally settle down after the first couple of innings but by then the damage was done. Cole threw 19 pitches in a two-run first inning and 13 of those pitches were four-seam fastballs. The Blue Jays made contact with 7 of them and put 6 in play including a ball that was right down the middle to Marcus Semien who did not miss. Bo Bichette also had a big night with two home runs including the go-ahead run to win the game. You cannot pitch middle-middle to the Blue Jays and walk away unscathed. They are too good offensively.
Cole's final line for the night looked like this: 6 IP, 5 ER, 6K and 2 HR. Cole allowed 7 extra-base hits last night. He gave up the most extra-base hits on his four-seamer in ANY game he's ever pitched. The Yankees scored 5 runs, that should be enough to win a game. The offense did not fail Cole this time. They have in the past but this time the offense bailed him out when they tied the game and he failed the team by putting them behind in the first place.
Cole is our ace and we need to rely on him especially in these big games as we fight for postseason berth. He said last night he would be ready to pitch the last game of the season on short rest if needed. The question here shouldn't be "will he be available?" it is "should we trust him and take that risk?" Two of his last three starts have not been good.
We want and need to see Cole pitch well, but that hasn't happened lately and because of that I think he can kiss any hope of a Cy Young award goodbye. Hopefully we haven't kissed the postseason goodbye, because right now that's the ONLY thing that matters and the gap is closer now that the Blue Jays and the Red Sox won last night.
We want and need to see Cole pitch well, but that hasn't happened lately and because of that I think he can kiss any hope of a Cy Young award goodbye. Hopefully we haven't kissed the postseason goodbye, because right now that's the ONLY thing that matters and the gap is closer now that the Blue Jays and the Red Sox won last night.
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ReplyDeleteCole has had some clunkers against teams we are competing with.
Rays, Jays and Red Sox have all bet him in important games. Garret Cole is a very good pitcher but he is not a clutch pitcher. Lester Cortes Jr. is a better pitcher than Cole is right now and has been for the past two months. Jordan Montgomery has done better in key games than Cole.
Clutch players find a way to win.
While I am at it Luke Viit I deserve to play more than Rizzo because I led the league in home runs last year .You can't run to first base and if hour knee has not recovered maybe you should had been truthful about it still being bad. Your just an off season away from being traded and Rizzo being signed because quite frankly this team needs to get better. Time to move you and Hicks and Gallo and replace you with Florial. Let's face all you Frazer haters, he hit better than Gallo with and vision and you guys are not not dogging Gallo like you did Frazier. Funny Frazier plays RF and makes amazing plays and in LF he makes bad decisions and Gallo plays great RF but takes bad routes and bad decisions in LF all this while trying to find some new to take Gardner's place.. I think Gardy would be a much better hitter if he quite trying to work the count and as my favorite saying when I was coaching see the ball hit the ball .