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Gerrit Cole, Carlos Hernandez Are Starting Tonight's Game As New York, Kansas City Are Continuing Their Series That Is A Three Game Series In Kansas City Missouri

Gerrit Cole, Carlos Hernandez are starting tonight’s game as New York, Kansas City are continuing their series that is a three game series in Kansas City Missouri.

Gerrit Cole, Carlos Hernandez are alike because they are both right handed pitchers!

Gerrit Cole, Carlos Hernandez are different because Gerrit Cole comes into the game with a record of 1-0 with an earn run average of 4.00 while Carlos Hernandez comes into the game with a record of 0-0 with an earn run average of 6.43.

“according to espn.com”

In this game New York who is a member of the American League East is going to be looking to extend their winning streak to eight games and win the series because they come into game two of the three game series with a record of 14-6 because they won the first game of the series 12-2 on Friday night The home run was the story Friday in New York’s 12-2 win over Kansas City because Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleyber Torres homered as New York the team that wears the pinstripes extended their winning streak to seven games.

Though,

Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo, Giancarlo Stanton didn’t all hit home runs in the same inning the first inning because Aaron Rizzo homered to center field 415 feet, DJ Lemahieu scored to make the score 2-0 New York . Then Giancarlo Stanton homered to left 429 feet to make the score 3-0 New York . Then in the top of the 7th inning court was in session because Aaron Judge homered to right 389 feet to put up 7-2 over Kansas City. Then in the top of 8th inning Gleyber Torres got in on the home run mentality.

How?

By homering to left 383 feet scoring Joey Gallo making the score 9-2 New York over Kansas City.

Though,

Home runs weren’t the only offense for New York because in the top of 8th inning Kyle Higashioka doubled to left, Aaron Hicks scored, Tim Locastro scored, Isiah Kiner -Falefa scored to back up Nestor Cortes who started the game for New York pitching 5.0 innings giving up 1 earned run while striking out 3 batters walking 0 batters.

“according to espn.com”

Though, that turned out to be the offense the rest of the night as the game was made official in the 8th inning because of inclement weather.

Aaron Boone who is the manager for New York for the team that wears the pinstripes had this to say about Aaron Judge home run!

That was a big boy homer the other way,"

Anthony Rizzo had this to say about Aaron Judge’s home run!

Judgey breaking it open there in the [seventh] and us scoring nine late was also another energizing thing for this team,You know, [there are] innings where we don't score runs, but we just know the whole time there's big numbers on the way."

Aaron Boone who is the manager of New York had this to say about Nestor Cortes starting pitching performance!

It was a weird night out there, with the wind and some things "It was really good to see him, when it wasn't necessarily easy ... [that] he still made pitches when he had to, and gave us a strong five innings on a night when he was kind of grinding."

Aaron Judge had this to say about Nestor Cortes starting pitching performance!

He's a pitcher, man. He knows what he's doing out there," said Judge. "Really working that cutter well, it's like an unhittable pitch right now. … It's fun to play behind."

“according to an article by Jordan Wolf on mlb.com”

Kansas City who unlike New York is member of the American League Central comes into the game with a record of 7-11 and is going to be looking to even up the series because they lost the first game of the series on Friday 12-2 because Kris Bubic who started the game for Kansas City pitched 5.0 innings gave up 4 hits , 3 earned runs. Then Dylan Coleman who came out of the bullpen for Kansas City after Collin Snider pitched 0.2 innings gave up 3 hits, 4 earned runs, 1 walk. Then Jake Brentz who came out of the bullpen for Kansas City after Amir Garrett who pitched 0.1 innings giving 0 hits, , 0 earned 0, walks gave up 4 hits, 4 earned runs that turned out to be the difference in the game.

“according to espn.com”

First pitch is set for 7:10pm from Kauffman Stadium if you’re on East Coast Time 6:10pm if you’re on Central Time.

The game is going to be televised on Bally Sports Kansas City, Yes!