Gerrit Cole Exited His Start In Wild Card Game Early, New York's 2021 Season Ended With 6-1 Loss To Boston On Tuesday Night

Gerrit Cole exited his start in the wild card game early on Tuesday night!

How early?

After recording six outs Gerrit Cole departed with New York trailing, 3-0 to Boston in the wild card game in Boston Massachusetts.

During his start in the wild card game in Boston Gerrit Cole surrendered a two run home run to Xander Boegaerts cracked a two-run homer in the first inning and Kyle Schwarber connected for a solo shot in the third inning. Xander Bogaerts clubbed a two-run homer in the first inning, and Kyle Schwarber hit a solo shot in the third inning off Cole, who permitted four hits over two-plus innings. Neither long ball was a cheapie: Bogaerts belted a middle-middle changeup 427 feet, and Schwarber barreled a high fastball for a 435-foot trip to the right-field seats.

Gerrit Cole had this to say about the home runs he served up!

“Just a couple mistakes,” Cole said. “Obviously, Bogaerts, big situation. And a big mistake to Schwarber.”

Kyle Schwarber’s homer, Kiké Hernández’s infield single and a walk to Rafael Devers ended Cole’s night.

Offensively Anthony Rizzo put New York on the board with a one-out homer, and Judge legged out an infield hit, prompting Boston manager Alex Cora to call upon a porous bullpen.Giancarlo Stanton greeted Ryan Brasier with a 114.9 mph missile that pelted the Green Monster in left-center field. As Judge rounded second, third-base coach Phil Nevin pointed toward the plate.

Center fielder Kiké Hernández fed the relay throw to Bogaerts, who fired a strike to Kevin Plawecki from the lip of the infield grass beyond second base. Instead of runners at first and third with one out, the Yanks had Stanton at second with two outs, to be turned aside when Joey Gallo popped out.

Alex Verdugo stroked a run-scoring double in the sixth inning and a two-run single in the seventh as Boston pulled away. Having seen two drives hit the wall, Stanton went to right field in the ninth for a solo homer -- too little to close the deficit, and too late to save the Yankees from another winter of pondering how to avoid the same bitter conclusion next autumn.

“according to an articles by Bryan Hoch on mlb.com”

With the 6-1 loss to Boston in the wild card game New York’s 2021 season is over!