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As New York, Tampa Bay Are Continuing Their Series That Is Three Game Series Tonight In St. Petersburg Florida Nestor Cortes Is Starting For New York! Though, Who He Is Opposing Is To Be Determined

As New York, Tampa Bay are continuing their series that is three game series tonight in St. Petersburg Florida Nestor Cortes is starting for New York! Though, who he is going to be opposing is to be determined.

Nestor Cortes is a left handed starting pitcher!

Nestor Cortes comes into the game with a record of 6-2 with an earn run average of 1.94.

“according to espn.com”

As New York, Tampa Bay are continuing their series that is a three game series tonight in St. Petersburg Florida New York comes into the game with a record of 50-17 is leading the American League East and is going to be looking to win the series because they won the opening game of the three game series 4-2 on Monday night in St. Petersburg Florida.

After Gerrit Cole took no hitter To 8th Inning Issac Paredes broke it up making the score 2-1 Aaron Hicks tripled scoring Josh Donaldson, Jose Trevino hit sacrifice fly scoring him New York topped Tampa Bay 4-2.

When?

Monday night!

Where?

St. Petersburg Florida!

Though, before New York won the game 4-2 over Tampa Bay Yandy Diaz grounded out to Clay Holmes Issac Padres scored to make the score 2-1 New York breaking Gerrit Cole’s no- hitter 12 strikeouts then Francisco Mejia went to third base to tie the score up at 2-2 .

“according to espn.com”

Jose Trevino who caught Gerrit Cole’s almost no -hitter had this to say about his start!

“Every night he goes out there, he has the chance to do that. It’s really, really impressive,”The way he prepares, the way he comes out and performs and toes the rubber, I’ve been nothing but impressed with him.”

Gerrit Cole had this to say about his pitching performance about New York mentality!

I’ve had a few good nights before,Honestly, in this situation, I’m just glad we got the win. It takes everybody, so we pick each other up.”

I think we’ve just got a lot of ‘dawg’ in us,”We love to play every pitch. Whether we’re winning or whether we’re losing, it’s just a focus on one pitch at a time. Everybody is kind of taking care of their business for their teammates, really.”

Aaron Judge had this to say about Gerrit Cole’s pitching performance!

He was just cruising; it was a normal Cole day, nothing out of the ordinary,” Judge said. “But I noticed it there in the sixth inning. He’s going to get it here soon. Hopefully I’m playing center when he does.”

Jose Trevino who caught Gerrit Cole’s almost no -hitter had this to say about his start!

“Every night he goes out there, he has the chance to do that. It’s really, really impressive,”The way he prepares, the way he comes out and performs and toes the rubber, I’ve been nothing but impressed with him.”

“according to Bryan Hoch’s article on mlb.com”

As New York, Tampa Bay are continuing their series that is a three game series in St. Petersburg Florida tonight Tampa Bay is going to be looking to even up the series because Tampa Bay comes into the game with a record of 36-31 is fourth in the American League East 14.0 games back of New York who is leading the American League East because they lost the opening game of the three game series Monday night in St. Petersburg Florida though Yandy Diaz grounded out to New York reliever Clay Holmes Issac Paredes scored cutting the deficit to 2-1 New York in the 8th inning and Manual Margot reached on infield single to third scoring Francisco Mejia because Jason Adam who relieved Calvin Faucher pitched 1.0 innings gave up 2 hits two earned runs that included Aaron Hicks triple that scored Josh Donaldson in the top of 9th inning giving New York 3-2 lead over Tampa Bay. Then Jose Trevino hit sacrifice fly scoring Aaron Hicks to make the final score 4-2 New York.

“according to espn.com”

Though that wasn’t all Tampa Bay lost they are likely to loose a couple players too the injured list Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash announced after Tampa Bay’s 4-2 loss to New York Monday night in St. Petersburg Florida.

Who?

Kevin Kiermaier who is Tampa Bay center fielder is expected to miss time because of left hip inflammation.

Manual Margot who is their right fielder for Tampa Bay is expected to miss “significant” time due to a right knee sprain after he carted off in the ninth inning, when he tried to scale the right-field wall to snag Aaron Hicks’ tiebreaking RBI triple.

How much production is Kevin Cash, Tampa Bay going to be missing from their starting lineup for the rest of the series?

Quite a bit as during the 2022 season Kevin Kiermaier has had 179 at bats produced offensively 26 runs, 41 hits, 7 home runs, 17 runs batted in, 5 stolen bases and has a batting average of 229. Manuel Margot has had 182 at bats, produced 21 runs, 55 hits, 3 home runs, 27 runs batted in 5 stolen bases while he has a batting average of 302.

“according to mlb.com”

First pitch is set for 7:10pm from Tropicana Field!

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