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MLB roundup: Cole dominates as Yankees shut out Rays, 1-0
Gerrit Cole allows four hits and strikes out 12 in eight innings to improve to 5-1.
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Yankees starter Gerrit Cole delivers a pitch in the third inning Wednesday night at St. Petersburg, Fla.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Gerrit Cole struck out 12 over eight stellar innings, Aaron Hicks had a sacrifice fly and the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 on Wednesday night amid a coronavirus outbreak that sidelined shortstop Gleyber Torres.
Cole (5-1) scattered four hits and has five starts this season of at least 10 strikeouts and no walks to break Mike Mussina’s single-season team record set in 2001. He struck out all three batters in his final inning, including Brett Phillips on a 98 mph fastball to end the inning.
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Yankees’ Gerrit Cole sets more team records in dominating win over Rays
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New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole delivers to the Tampa Bay Rays during the third inning of a baseball game Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in St. Petersburg, Fla. AP
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It’s Gerrit Cole’s world and we’re just living in it.
That raised Cole’s strikeout total for the season to 78, which is second-best in MLB (Shane Bieber, 85). And according to Yankees PR, that’s a new team record for most strikeouts through the first eight starts of a season. The old record belonged to Bob Turley, who had 72 in 1955.
Facts that put Yankees’ Gerrit Cole’s dominant start into perspective
Posted May 07, 2021
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NEW YORK Want to know how good Yankees ace Gerrit Cole has been?
With his seven innings and two runs allowed in Thursday’s 7-4 loss to the Astros at Yankee Stadium, he snapped his 15-start streak with at least seven strikeouts.
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The run was tied with Pedro Martinez (15 starts, 8/19/99-5/12/00) and Nolan Ryan (15 starts, 6/25-9/12/89) for the second-longest stretch by a starter in American League history, trailing only Shane Bieber (21 starts from 9/20/19 until present).
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