3 years agoNew York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole turned in a dominant performance just when his club needed one in Wednesday's win over the Angels. Cole pitched seven innings of one-run ball, surrendering four hits while striking out a whopping 15 batters against zero walks. He became the third Yankees pitcher to have a 15-strikeout, zero-walk game and the first in franchise history to record five performances with at least 12 punchouts in a single season. Cole generated an incredible 32 swinging strikes, 18 of them on his heater, which showed break and velocity slightly above his season averages. The ace right-hander is making a stronger case for the Cy Young award with each start, improving to 14-6 on the season with a 2.73 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, and a 215:32 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 155 innings pitched. Cole is lined up to face the Blue Jays next. He allowed two runs over eight innings in his last outing against them.--Tim Capurso
Source: Baseball Savant