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NY Post
New York Post
10 Jul 2023


NextImg:Gerrit Cole will start All-Star Game to cross off baseball bucket list

SEATTLE — Gerrit Cole will be a star of stars. Or maybe a starter of stars.

Cole will be named the starter for Tuesday’s All-Star Game, which will be the first time Cole gets the ball to open the Midsummer Classic, The Post’s Jon Heyman reported.

Cole, now a six-time All-Star, has only pitched in one game, back in 2015.

But the opportunity to start it will prompt a second appearance, and he will become the first Yankee to start the All-Star Game since Roger Clemens in 2001.

Gerrit Cole will start the All-Star Game for the American League.
Robert Sabo for NY Post

“One of these days, I would really like to start it,” Cole said last week. “I gotta check that one off. But I’m not sure how that shakes out over the next week.”

The 32-year-old ace pitched 7 ⅓ innings Saturday, so he will be pitching on just two days rest.

Cole, who went 9-2 with a 2.85 ERA in a brilliant first half, got the nod over aces such as the Rangers’ Nathan Eovaldi, who went 10-3 with a 2.83 ERA.

American League manager Dusty Baker also could have turned to Luis Castillo (2.85 ERA), who will be pitching in his home of T-Mobile Park.