Gerrit Cole flirted with perfection, lost it, then settled for mere domination in the Yankees’ 4-3, 10-inning loss to the Mets on Wednesday night.
Cole flirted with perfection, lost it, then settled for mere domination in theCole matched zeroes and, eventually, ones with Justin Verlander, a future Hall of Famer and his former Astros teammate.
Cole did not throw a third pitch until his last delivery of the fourth, when his knuckle-curve struck out Jeff McNeil.Mets’ Justin Verlander comes up with vintage outing at just right time “Fastball just came out good,” said Cole, who induced 11 swings and misses on 37 swings against his four-seamer. “Stuck with it.”Francisco Lindor led off the bottom of the fifth inning with a double off the wall in right-center, the first Met to reach base.Cole struck out Brett Baty with some high heat, but he lost a battle with Tommy Pham.
The Yankees answered with a tying run in the top of the sixth, and Cole kept the Mets from taking a second lead — barely.
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