Gerrit Cole watched closely from the dugout on Friday night as the Los Angeles Dodgers pulverized his teammate, the right-hander Luis Severino.
“There are outside circumstances that sometimes kind of elevate your preparation to a certain extent,” Cole said a night later, after buzzing through the same Dodgers.
That’s not the most comfortable situation to go in and pitch to when you have a dynamic offense swinging the bat well.
“So, one way or another, you can’t really let it negatively affect you.
Aaron Judge did not play during Sunday’s series-clinching 4-1 victory because of a sore and swollen right big toe that he hurt while making a sensational running catch on Saturday that carried him into — and then through — the fence in right field.
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Gerrit Cole, Luis Severino, Cole, ” Cole, Sevy, That’s, You’ve, Aaron Judge
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