Gerrit Cole´s First Start

The New York Yankees right hand throwing pitcher Gerrit Cole made his first spring training start for the Yankees on Monday night. He had recently just joined the team this year after coming from the Houston Astros. Since it is a spring training game the pitchers don’t usually pitch more than two innings that way they can have all there pitchers get a nice warm up before the season gets underway. Gerrit was the first pitcher on the mound that night where he would pitch the first inning of play. In that inning he threw a total of 20 pitches where 12 were strikes and 8 were balls. Overall it was a great start to his career with the Yankees. One inning doesn’t really show what kind of year the pitcher is going to have but it gets the pitcher thinking about the season and what he is going to do to improve his game. He had 2 strikeouts in the inning which shows that he can find the zone and put the pitch exactly where he wants it to go. If I were Gerrit I would be happy with this start because it shows that everything he has practiced this year is paying off for his season to be great. He will most likely be able to be able to pitch a few more games in spring training and hopefully the Yankees will let him pitch more than just the first inning. If this happens we will get a better look at how he will be pitching this season.