{"id":653506,"date":"2026-05-20T01:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:46:18","slug":"yankees-ace-gerrit-cole-returning-from-tommy-john-surgery-on-friday-against-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653506\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Ace Gerrit Cole Returning From Tommy John Surgery On Friday Against Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/gerrit-cole-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gerrit Cole<\/a> is scheduled to return from Tommy John surgery Friday night and make his season debut for the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> against Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced the plan Tuesday before his team&#8217;s game against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Cole, the 2023 AL Cy Young Award winner, hasn&#8217;t pitched in the major leagues since October 2024 in Game 5 of the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> versus the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">&#8220;Been a long time,&#8221; Boone said. &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to get him back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Even after fellow Yankees ace <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/max-fried-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Fried<\/a> landed on the 15-day injured list last weekend with a left elbow bone bruise, Boone said the team still intended to have Cole make a seventh minor league rehabilitation start this week before rejoining the big league rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">But after the 35-year-old right-hander threw 86 pitches over 5 1\/3 innings for Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre against the Syracuse Mets on Saturday night, Cole and the Yankees changed course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">&#8220;When we all looked at it and just considered all the variables, it checked all the boxes,&#8221; Cole said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">He will start the series opener at Yankee Stadium against the AL East rival Rays, who swept three games from New York last month in Florida and entered Tuesday with the top record in the majors at 31-15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">&#8220;I expect it to be intense. 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Control the running game,&#8221; Cole said. &#8220;Lot of pressure from the other team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Reporting by the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerrit Cole is scheduled to return from Tommy John surgery Friday night and make his season debut for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[9306,13090,6134,363,369,99,19632],"class_list":["post-653506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}