2 signs Yankees’ Gerrit Cole is near ace form
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
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LAKELAND, Fla. The numbers weren’t great but they don’t matter when it comes to veterans, let alone aces like Yankees righty Gerrit Cole.
What mattered more was how Cole felt after giving up two runs on a pair of homers and striking out five in 3 2/3 innings of Tuesday’s 7-4 win over the Tigers at Joker Merchant Stadium.
“Throwing a good amount of strikes, staying within the delivery,” Cole said. “So, I feel good.”
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Cole will be the Yankees’ Opening Day starter for the second straight year when the Yankees begin the season vs. the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on April 1.
Starting off
Turnbull got four strikeouts Steve Wilkerson (looking, fastball), Adley Rutschman (swinging, fastball), Yolmer Sanchez (swinging, changeup) and, with runners on first and second in the fourth inning, Rutschman again with a 95.5 mph fastball. He got help in the third from Robbie Grossman, who threw out Ryan McKenna trying to score on Austin Wynns single to right field. Turnbull got eight swings-and-misses and 10 called strikes. His four-seam fastball recorded four whiffs and seven called strikes, and his two-seamer reached 96.4 mph. He used three curveballs and three changeups. The lone run allowed by Turnbull came on a ground-rule double from Ramos Urias in the fourth inning.
New York Yankees vs. Detroit Tigers: Jameson Taillon vs. Julio Teherán
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The Yankees are in Lakeland today to take on the Tigers. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this same exact matchup happened on Tuesday in the same setting.
This time though, the Yankees will be pitching Jameson Taillon rather than Deivi García. After he throws a few innings, Aaron Boone will cobble together the rest of the game from the following bunch that traveled to Joker Marchant: Albert Abreu, Kyle Barraclough, Nestor Cortes Jr., Nick Goody, Brooks Kriske, Tyler Lyons, Reggie McClain, and Addison Russ.