Gerrit Cole might have given the Yankees some reason to hope he’s returning to top form with the best start of his season in Friday’s win.
The Yankees have plenty of issues to fix if they want to get back to how they were playing for the first two-plus months of the season.
Gerrit Cole might have given them some reason to hope he’s returning to top form with his best start of his abbreviated season in Friday’s 4-1 win over Baltimore at Camden Yards.
While the win was somewhat overshadowed by the ninth-inning fireworks stemming from Clay Holmes drilling Heston Kjerstad in the head that led to the benches clearing, much of the early part of the game was dominated by Cole’s solid performance on the mound.
He gave up just a run in the second inning and lasted a season-high six innings,while throwing 106 pitches, also his most of the year after missing much of the first half with an elbow injury that sidelined him in the spring.
“I thought he was great,’’ Aaron Boone said of Cole, who hadn’t thrown more than five innings in any of his previous four starts.
