{"id":262361,"date":"2026-09-13T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/rough-gerrit-cole-outing-raises-concerns-for-yankees-postseason-rotation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:07:10","slug":"rough-gerrit-cole-outing-raises-concerns-for-yankees-postseason-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/rough-gerrit-cole-outing-raises-concerns-for-yankees-postseason-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Gerrit Cole outing raises concerns for Yankees postseason rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/new_york_yankees\/18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Yankees<\/a> starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/gerrit_cole\/196186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerrit Cole<\/a> is slumping at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the 2023 AL Cy Young Award winner had another poor start in a 12-2 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/new_york_mets\/19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Mets<\/a> (69-79).<\/p>\n<p>Cole, making his 20th start of the season, lasted 4.1 innings while giving up five earned runs on nine hits, including three home runs. With the Yankees (85-63) gearing up for the postseason, their one-time ace&#8217;s rough stretch complicates manager Aaron Boone&#8217;s rotation heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole&#8217;s struggles continue in lopsided loss to the New York Mets<\/h2>\n<p>Over his last four starts dating back to a 5-1 loss to the Houston Astros on Aug. 27, Cole has a 6.08 earned run average with only 17 strikeouts in 22.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets got to the six-time All-Star early, with leadoff hitter Francisco Lindor taking an 85 mph changeup 359 feet to right field on the third pitch of the game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/rough_gerrit_cole_outing_raises_concerns_for_yankees_postseason_rotation\/s1_13132_44295591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole is slumping at the wrong time. On Saturday, the 2023 AL Cy Young Award winner had another poor start in a 12-2 loss to the New York Mets (69-79). Cole, making his 20th start of the season, lasted 4.1 innings while giving up five earned runs on nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}