Gerrit Cole (34, New York Yankees), who signed a nine-year, $324 million contract (about 448.6 billion won), returned to the Major League after shaking off an elbow injury. Cole started the 2024 Major League home game against the Baltimore Orioles at the Bronx Yankee Stadium in New York, New York on the 20th and allowed three hits, five strikeouts, one walk and two runs in four innings.

Since joining the Yankees in 2020, Cole has been an active FA model. Except for 2020, he played 16-13-15 games, 181 ⅓ innings, 200.2 and 209 innings in the three years from 2021 to last year, respectively. In the 2023 season, he won his first career American League Cy Young Award with 15 wins and 4 losses and an ERA of 2.63.

Cole has been rehabilitating as he felt something wrong in his arm while preparing for this season. He took the mound in the Minor League for the first time in eight years since 2016. He displayed robust performance by bombing the ERA of 0.73 in three minor league games. He also faced Baltimore, which was not easy in his Major League comeback game.

He consistently hit 95-96 miles of fastballs, and also garnered two shots in the 97-mile range. He was able to throw the ball as fast as possible, but he was a four-seam fastball measuring 97.5 miles (about 157 kilometers). He mixed cutters and knuckle curves. In the first inning, Baltimore's main batter Gunner Henderson hit a superior double with the cutter going into the middle, and Ryan O'Hearn hit a slider well outside, but he was hit in the left-center gap with an RBI single.

However, Cole started mixing changeups in the second inning to regain stability. He had three outs for the first time in the second inning. He allowed a walk and a steal at the second base to Henderson after one out in the third inning, but struck out Adley Rutchman with a knuckle curve. To Ryan Moundcastle, he used the top and bottom of the strike zone to strike out swinging and hitting with a slider.

In the fourth inning, he struck out Anthony Santander and Colton Kauser with a high fastball. He threw a 95.1 mile high fastball to Cedric Mullins, the leadoff hitter, in the fifth inning but was replaced after getting hit to the left field. After Cole left the mound, Ramon Urias hit a two-run shot to the left-center wall, and Cole added one more earned run.

Cole told MLB.com , "It was a special game. It's been months since I was injured, and I've had a lot of emotions. Most of the time, the command went well. The pitch was neat. As the number of pitches increases, you have to be consistent. You have to keep improving. I threw a great slider."

Manager Aaron Boone also praised Cole's return match. "It was good. He got better over the innings. He was in control and showed his ability to strike out. He threw good pitches. Some fastballs went high, but it was good. Most of them were good shocks."     카지노사이트

The Yankees rank No. 1 overall in the Major League with a 2.87 ERA. Cole has been away for more than two months since the season opened, but no vacancy was felt at all. Notably, Lewis Gill, a middle-aged rookie, led the Cy Young Award with nine wins and one loss and an ERA of 2.03 in 14 games. Now, the Yankees can have six starting pitchers. Cole's addition has made me think about something happy.