{"id":1170,"date":"2026-05-23T05:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:04:43","slug":"gerrit-cole-pitches-6-shutout-innings-after-569-day-absence-as-yankees-lose-to-rays-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Gerrit Cole pitches 6 shutout innings after 569-day absence as Yankees lose to Rays 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Gerrit Cole crouched behind the mound, stared at the dirt and after a 569-day absence climbed on the rubber in a major league game that mattered.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1168\">Barbashev, Eichel score in 2:07 span, Golden Knights stun Avs 3-1 to take 2-0 series lead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust let it rip downrange and see what we got,\u201d the New York Yankees ace thought to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Cole allowed two hits over six shutout innings Friday night in his return from elbow ligament reconstruction surgery. He left with a 1-0 lead that the Yankees wasted in a 4-2 loss to the major league-best Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost like a second debut,\u201d the 35-year-old right-hander said. \u201cIt was nice to get back in the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole had not pitched a big league outing that counted since Game 5 of the World Series on Oct. 30, 2024. He had reconstructive surgery the following March 11, then started a rehab path that included two spring training outings this year and six minor league rehabilitation starts beginning April 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome ups and downs, for sure. A long road,\u201d Cole said. \u201cAnd yet at some point tonight it was almost like I had never left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a few days of stubble on his face, Cole warmed up to the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cGimme Shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s go swing the rock around,\u201d catcher Austin Wells told him. \u201cHave fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole averaged 96.1 mph with 35 four-seam fastballs, reaching a high of 98.6 mph in the first. He mixed in 13 sinkers, 10 sliders, eight changeups and six knuckle-curves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to have our ace back in the mix,\u201d Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cHe did a lot of game management things really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole threw 50 of 72 pitches for strikes, starting 18 of 22 batters with an offering in the strike zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was lovely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler Simpson singled leading off and Junior Caminero walked but Cole retired Jonathan Aranda on a flyout, picked off a dancing Simpson at second and got Yandy D\u00edaz to take a sinker for a called third strike.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1166\">Gilgeous-Alexander, bench propel Thunder past Spurs 123-108 after historic slow start for 2-1 lead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using his new overhead hand movement in his windup, adopted during his rehab, Cole needed just seven pitches in the third inning and four in the fourth. He retired 10 in a row during one stretch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked healthy to me,\u201d Rays manager Kevin Cash said. \u201cHe\u2019s as special as there is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole munched on a banana between innings at one point to keep up his energy. He struck out two and walked three, including Richie Palacios on four balls that followed a first-pitch strike and Taylor Walls on four straight balls.<\/p>\n<p>Against the high-contact Rays, he induced just five misses among 31 swings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe command was good enough. It was hard to trust some off-speed pitches there early,\u201d Cole said. \u201cControlled the zone well and sequenced well. Brought ourselves room inside the strike zone and beside some lapses in control kept pressure on the opposition throughout the at-bats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thought there was room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s probably some opportunities to get a little further outside of the strike zone, but at the same time, knowing that that might not be as crisp as it has been before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He joined a rotation that includes Carlos Rod\u00f3n, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren and Ryan Weathers, taking the spot that opened when Max Fried went on the injured list because of a bone bruise in his left elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Wells backed him with his first home run since April 28, a fifth-inning drive off Nick Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Caballero, back at shortstop after missing 10 days because of a broken finger, allowed Simpson\u2019s one-hopper to bounce off his glove leading of the eighth. The Rays burst ahead on Aranda\u2019s RBI double, Palacios\u2019 two-run single on a comebacker off the glove of leaping reliever Tim Hill and Ryan Vilade\u2019s sacrifice fly, then held on to improve to 4-0 against New York this year.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees captain Aaron Judge went 0 for 4 with a game-ending flyout to the center-field warning track with a man on against Bryan Baker. Judge is in a 1-for-24 slide that dropped his average to .245 and has gone a career-high 11 games without any RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Cole will start again next week at Kansas City. During his long rehab, he had thought about the night of his return.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1164\">Si Woo Kim just misses history at Byron Nelson, settling for 60 after a bogey on the final hole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of what I imagined it would be,\u201d he said with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Gerrit Cole crouched behind the mound, stared at the dirt and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gerrit Cole pitches 6 shutout innings after 569-day absence as Yankees lose to Rays 4-2 - 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