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21 Jun 2023


NextImg:Yankees squeak past Mariners thanks to Gerrit Cole’s gem

The Yankees finally figured out how to win without Aaron Judge in the lineup.

All it takes is a gem from Gerrit Cole.

The Yankees’ ace delivered 7 ¹/₃ strong innings to pitch his light-hitting team to a 3-1 win over the Mariners in The Bronx on Tuesday night.

Cole allowed one run, which allowed the Yankees, who scored three or fewer runs for the fourth time in five games, to snap a four-game losing streak.

The lineup provided an RBI double from Anthony Rizzo and a two-run homer by Billy McKinney.

The slumping Rizzo had three hits after entering the game in a 4-for-48 funk.

Cole delivered his fourth straight strong start, and he started it off with a six-pitch first inning.

Gerrit Cole allowed just one run in the Yankees’ 3-1 win over the Mariners on June 20.
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The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the inning, thanks to some help from Seattle’s defense, which was spotty all game.

With Gleyber Torres on first and two out, Rizzo belted a shot to the track in right-center, where right fielder Teoscar Hernandez should have made an inning-ending catch.

But Hernandez dropped it and Torres scored from first on the play that was somehow called a double.

Billy McKinney belts a two-run homer in the second inning of the Yankees' win.

Billy McKinney belts a two-run homer in the second inning of the Yankees’ win.
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Cole walked Jarred Kelenic with one out in the second and Eugenio Suarez followed with a flare single to right before the right-hander got Cal Raleigh to fly to left and then struck out ex-Yankee Mike Ford to end the threat.

McKinney extended the lead in the second.

Harrison Bader, just back from the IL, reached on a leadoff single through the right side of the infield, and McKinney then drilled a 432-foot, two-run shot into the bleachers in right for a 3-0 lead against George Kirby, who pitched at nearby Rye High School.

Anthony Rizzo smacks an RBI double in the first inning of the Yankees' victory.

Anthony Rizzo smacks an RBI double in the first inning of the Yankees’ victory.
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Rizzo was awarded another double after his second shot to right in the third inning that went to the wall and was then mishandled by Hernandez.

The Mariners got to Cole in the sixth.

Cole hit Ty France with a pitch with one out and then got Hernandez to fly to shallow right, but Kelenic hit a ball off the wall in left that drove in France to make it 3-1.

Cole stranded Kelenic at second by fanning Suarez.

He struck out the side in order in the seventh, and ended it in odd fashion. First, almost lobbing a ball to the backstop and then appearing to wag his finger at Jose Caballero after striking him out to end the inning, seemingly upset with the time the second baseman was taking between pitches.

Cole struck out the last five batters he faced before Clay Holmes took over in the eighth and finished it with a five-out save.