without Aaron Judge for the foreseeable future<\/a> after his reimaging during the All-Star break did not show enough healing to allow him to start baseball activities, could not provide enough run support to make Cole\u2019s only mistake of the night sting less. They mustered just one run against Roki Sasaki and the Dodgers bullpen, coming in the fourth inning when Jasson Dom\u00ednguez scored on a passed ball.\u00a0<\/p>\nThey had a chance to tie it in the eighth inning, but Trent Grisham was thrown out at the plate trying to score from first base on Ben Rice\u2019s double with an aggressive send from third-base coach Luis Rojas. Grisham did not immediately bust it from first base, which came back to cost him as the Dodgers (62-36) made the relay from center fielder Andy Pages to shortstop Mookie Betts, who backed up an overthrow to second base and made a throw on the run to catcher Dalton Rushing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to push the envelope a little bit with one out,\u201d Boone said. \u201cI thought it was a decisive decision where he was probably holding him but read the throw properly. \u2026 You\u2019d hate to leave that run on the table with the guy running off-balance. He made a play. But I don\u2019t have an issue with the send.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the Red Sox sweeping a doubleheader against the Rays on Friday, the Yankees had a chance to pick up a game and a half in the division, but settled for just a half-game, now trailing the Rays by 2 \u00b9\/\u2082 games for first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Max Muncy crushed a home run in the seventh inning. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
Cole had been dominant for six shutout innings before issuing his first walk of the night to Betts to lead off the seventh. Boone had lefty Brent Headrick ready in the bullpen, but after a brief chat with Cole on the mound, decided to leave him in against the left-handed hitting Muncy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cole quickly got ahead 0-2 and then thought he had strike three on a slider that appeared to clip the top corner of the zone, but was called a ball and Austin Wells did not use the Yankees\u2019 remaining challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy mindset is I can always make another pitch,\u201d said Cole, who struck out eight. \u201cIt\u2019s just one more pitch. You can figure out how to make one more.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three pitches later, though, another slider caught too much of the plate and Muncy clobbered it 416 feet to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 Dodgers lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked at the pitch, it\u2019s not where I wanted it,\u201d Cole said. \u201cBut I looked at the swing, it was pretty excellent. It just stinks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham is tagged out at home plate by
Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing in the eighth inning. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
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In the Dodgers\u2019 first trip to Yankee Stadium since winning the World Series here in 2024 \u2014 Cole, of course, was on the mound for the fateful Game 5 in his last start before undergoing Tommy John surgery \u2014 they threw three lefty relievers after Sasaki lit up the radar gun for 5 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the fourth inning, Dom\u00ednguez laced a double to the gap, took third on the play as Pages bobbled the ball on the warning track and then scored on Sasaki\u2019s forkball that got past Rushing for the 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But that was all they could get.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) reacts after he strikes out in the ninth inning. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201c[Sasaki] has got offspeed pitches with some good depth to them and velo separation when he\u2019s got a 100-plus mile an hour fastball in his back pocket,\u201d Rice said. \u201cHe was getting some early contact, getting some miss, just keeping us off-balance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerrit Cole had the magic words, or look, to convince Aaron Boone to leave him in the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35539,22383,7482,11922,20,9,11,10,321,319,5390],"class_list":["post-299332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-boone","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-max-muncy","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-trent-grisham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}