{"id":194622,"date":"2026-05-17T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:14:10","slug":"yankees-gerrit-cole-looks-sharp-in-latest-rehab-start-for-triple-a-scranton-wilkes-barre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194622\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Gerrit Cole looks sharp in latest rehab start for Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Yankees <\/a>and Mets <\/a>faced off in Queens on Saturday night, Gerrit Cole<\/a> had his own version of a Subway Series matchup in a rehab start for Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre against Syracuse.<\/p>\n

The right-hander looked the best he has in the minors as he nears a return to the major leagues following Tommy John surgery that caused him to miss all of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

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Cole allowed just one run on six hits over 86 pitches through 5.1 innings of work. He struck out six and walked one, while averaging a 97.0 mph fastball and topping out at 99.6 mph, per YES Network’s Conor Foley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manager Aaron Boone had said Friday<\/a> that Cole was expected to make two more starts in the minor leagues before he comes back to New York. And based on Saturday’s performance, it appears the 35-year-old is feeling ready.<\/p>\n

Plus, Cole’s anticipated return by the end of May comes at the right time for the Yanks as Max Fried<\/a> was placed on the 15-day IL on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Yankees and Mets faced off in Queens on Saturday night, Gerrit Cole had his own version…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[79090,63599,2448,178,180,179,51286,42344,86582],"class_list":["post-194622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-max-fried","tag-saturday-night","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-tommy-john-surgery","tag-yankees","tag-yes-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}