It feels like Gerrit Cole’s Yankees honeymoon lasted only four days before he was summoned right back to work under high-stress circumstances.
CLEVELAND — Gerrit Cole gave a wave to the cheering Stadium crowd on his way off the field in Game 1. Unlike last year, when he face-planted at Fenway Park in the wild-card round, Cole had honored the terms of his $324 million deal.
But given how he performed in Game 1, it seems almost unfair to blitz Cole with another round of you’d-better-win-this-one pressure. It feels like too much, too soon. It feels like his honeymoon lasted only four days before he was summoned right back to work under high-stress circumstances.Saturday night, and wasted a resilient effort from Luis Severino when the bullpen unraveled in the ninth, landing the season on the brink of an unmitigated disaster.
Domingo German had to get up early in the pen, and just about everyone in the park believed Severino would be out of the game before Cleveland’s Triston McKenzie, the Brooklyn-born Derek Jeter fan who looked poised to shut down his childhood team.“It finds a way to punch you in the face every single time,” Max Scherzer had said, correctly, after his Mets were eliminated.
In the hours before that start, Cole was asked what he had seen from his teammate at the end of the regular season.“Electricity,” he said. “Seems like just an intensity and his focus and his routine and his preparation. … I know he loves being a warrior for us.”
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