Gerrit Cole on disastrous third inning: 'Just a peculiar night…tough to digest'

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If you remove Gerrit Cole’s third inning in the Bronx on Monday night, his line would include one run over seven innings with 11 strikeouts.

But the third inning, his lone hiccup on the night, was a big one, allowing four runs that proved to be the difference in a 6-4 Yankees loss, the team’s third in a row.

“Just a peculiar night,” Cole said. “I think that inning is just a little tough to digest.

“Just kind of a tough inning. Stuff didn’t fall our way, but they did a great job of doing whatever they were trying to do.”

Cole noted a few pitches out of the zone that were hit for power, starting with Ramon Urias’ leadoff double to start the inning on a pitch high and outside, and Cedric Mullins taking a pitch almost in the same spot lining a single to left. Some pitches that were fairly well executed didn’t go Cole’s way, and others that were off the target were punished. Sometimes, that’s the way it goes through the course of a start.

“That’s unfortunate. But there were seven really nice innings,” Cole said. “The natural instinct is not to brush it off. Kind of a brutal, undesirable result. But at the same time, we’re sitting here frustrated with just a couple pitches.

“Urias hits two balls for slug, that’s a good night. That’s just a good night…that’s just good baseball by them.”

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