{"id":29888,"date":"2020-07-18T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-finally-about-to-get-real-for-yankees-gerrit-cole\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:55:00","slug":"its-finally-about-to-get-real-for-yankees-gerrit-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-finally-about-to-get-real-for-yankees-gerrit-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s finally about to get real for Yankees\u2019 Gerrit Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#It\u2019s finally about to get real for Yankees\u2019 Gerrit Cole<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Gerrit Cole already holds one Yankees record: <\/p>\n

Most hoops jumped through to reach pinstrip<\/a>ed debut.<\/p>\n

But now, barring another cataclysmic event \u2014 and let\u2019s not rule that out, for sure \u2014 the $301.3 million man has jumped through his last hoop. It\u2019s time to do something that counts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time, finally, for Opening Night.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothings guaranteed in 2020 so I\u2019ll take it one day at a time,\u201d the wise Yankees right-hander said after throwing six innings and 87 pitches in a Yankee Stadium intrasquad game<\/a>, allowing two runs and striking out five and walking none. \u201cHopefully we get there because we\u2019ve put a lot of hard work in. \u2026 I\u2019m excited to start my career here as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be at home, as the Yankees will play at the home of the defending champion Nationals on Thursday night, and it won\u2019t be as loud as one would like, thanks to the coronavirus rightly convincing Major League Baseball to open the season without paying fans. The Yankees auditioned their version of artificial fan noise on Friday, and boy, it was so rough that even Aaron Boone conceded that it sounded like someone trying to tune an AM radio. Personally, it reminded me of the nocturnal mutants in \u201cI Am Legend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gerrit Cole<\/span>N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alas, we take what we can get. MLB released some encouraging COVID-19 test numbers on Friday, with only six of over 10,000 samples turning out positive, and it looks like we\u2019ll make it to the start of the season, at least. <\/p>\n

The Yankees will get there definitely without closer Aroldis Chapman, who is quarantined, and probably without their best player of 2019 DJ LeMahieu, who returned to the Stadium on Friday after his own quarantine. Yet they should have Cole, who pitched in four Grapefruit League games before the shutdown and then three intrasquad games during spring training 2.0. Who formally introduced himself to the Yankees fan base seven months ago Saturday, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

He crushed it that day, and he really has yet to slip up under Yankees employ. As you watched him work Friday, warming up to the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cGimme Shelter\u201d in the first inning, then immedia<\/a>tely working himself into a lather when \u201cBombers\u201d leadoff hitter Mike Tauchman fouled off three pitches, you lamented that he did so in a near-empty ballpark. Yankees fans will love seeing Cole\u2019s act in person, and he\u2019ll feed off that energy, if we ever get to that point.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything he does out there is impressive,\u201d Cole\u2019s catcher Gary Sanchez said through an interpreter.<\/p>\n

Cole served up back-to-back homers in the fourth inning to Mike Ford and Miguel Andujar, the byproduct, he said, of his breaking stuff quitting on him and putting him in fastball counts, on which his teammates pounced. He took pride in escaping a first-and-third, one-out jam in the fifth by striking out Kyle Holder and retiring Tauchman on a groundout to second.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been watching the same games you guys have,\u201d Aaron Boone said to reporters. \u201cThe stuff\u2019s been there.\u201d<\/p>\n

This being the weirdest and worst year ever, Boone also had to answer a question about suspended right-hander Domingo German posting on Instagram that he was retiring (Boone said he didn\u2019t know about it). Ay yi yi. Maybe baseball games actually can serve as a pleasant, momentary diversion from the rest of this insane world. Maybe Cole can set the example with his first start as a Yankee, first start (against the Nats\u2019 Max Scherzer) for the sport in this new world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be fun. It\u2019s gonna have fake crowd noise. It\u2019s gonna be 2020 coronavirus baseball,\u201d Cole said, laughing. \u201cBut I\u2019ll get to put the road jersey on for the first time. \u2018New York\u2019 across the chest. So [I\u2019m] stoked about that. Stoked about playing in some high-stakes games with the boys. It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve been out there to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo [I\u2019m] general<\/a>ly excited. Looking forward to it. And we\u2019ll start the preparation to try to get a W in the next 24, 48 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

His hoops jumped, the record unofficially set, Cole turns his focus to a smaller round object: Rings. The pursuit starts Thursday.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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