Yankees Edge Royals Despite Cole's Struggles: Game Recap

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00:00The other game will start tonight, just after 730 East in the Bronx for the Yankees and

00:10the Royals.

00:11Now, I will tell you, Scottie, me and you have said this a lot.

00:14Now Cole has had some decent starts in the playoffs for the Yankees in the past.

00:19Every time they gave him a lead the other night, he gave it right back.

00:23Like Cole, that guy out there, he's just like, here you go, you take it.

00:25I don't, I don't really want the lead.

00:27I thought he was, I don't know if you want to call it, him not playing for a week, him

00:31not pitching for over a week.

00:32Awful.

00:33How does that work for you?

00:34How does awful work for you?

00:36Awful works just fine for me.

00:38Awful was, that's fine then.

00:40I'm willing to go with awful because that's precisely what he was.

00:43But the Yankees still found a way to get it done, 6-5 they beat the Royals on Saturday.

00:49I'll tell you what else they found, Scottie.

00:51That Weaver, that Weaver's good at the end of the game, that Luke Weaver.

00:56Thank God they moved Holmes out of there.

00:58Now that Holmes pitched the other night, which was a problem, he did.

01:03He did a knitting in the 2-3.

01:04Maybe he's a better set-up guy than a closer, but it worked.

01:08He got everybody out.

01:09I think Weaver's been, the Dreamer Weaver's been sensational.

01:13The skinny kid, striking everybody out.

01:16He's been crazy good.

01:17What is he, face 44 guys, struck out 27 of them, that's crazy.

01:21Yes.

01:22I do think that they got the call right with Jazz at second base because everybody in the

01:27Royals screamed and yelled that they got robbed on Saturday night.

01:31All calls that go the Yankees way are correct, as you know.

01:35And it's like the Cane game, it's like the Cane game on Saturday night.

01:39Yeah, that's it.

01:40I mean, they won.

01:41The call's the call.

01:42The refs did a great job in the Canes game.

01:44They should all get free Mai Tais and tequila shots at the bar.

01:50And then I thought the Amps in the Yankee game did a phenomenal job.

01:55I also, Jazz is not hitting.

01:58I mean, the guy, he hasn't had a hit in two months.

02:01But he got on base and he stole second.

02:04And then Verdugo drove him in.

02:06They got two runs on bases loaded walks.

02:10I mean, they had no business winning that baseball game the other night.

02:13And they did win.

02:15And I told you going into it, I go, they'll be the only team that hasn't played in a week

02:19that will win a game this weekend.

02:21And they did.

02:22But I'll tell you this much, the Royals are giving them problems.

02:27So I expect about the same thing tonight.

02:30I think they're an issue for them.

02:33But a game just came back on after 15 minutes being off.

02:36They finally got that fixed.

02:38How embarrassing was that?

02:39But I think the Royals are a problem.

02:42And my guess is that the Yankees need to win tonight.

02:46They really do.

02:47Because I think when they go to Kansas City, they're going to lose.

02:50Look, and Reagans is going for the Royals tonight, which we'll get to in a moment.

02:54I don't love, I think it favors them.

02:57You know me, I'm not a Rodon guy.

02:59And I'm worried about what Rodon's going to give them here in a big spot in the playoffs.

03:04Hopefully he proves me wrong.

03:05Before we get there here.

03:06He's better than Cole.

03:07They figured Cole out now in baseball.

03:10He reminds me of, now people say I'm crazy, but he's starting to remind me of Kershaw.

03:17Where Kershaw's more of an injurer, like, you know, a guy that's had injuries and it's

03:23caught up with him and the injuries are ruining.

03:26He's finished.

03:27Clayton Kershaw's finished, just so you know.

03:29And they're not pitching him at all.

03:30He's finished for the season.

03:31He's done.

03:32But I think Cole isn't injured.

03:35But I think he's starting to be that guy that, honestly, is starting to look like he doesn't

03:41matter anymore.

03:42Like, they figured him out.

03:44He gives up lots of home runs, gives up lots of runs.

03:47He doesn't get guys out.

03:48I mean, just, he doesn't.

03:50Like his stuff used to be so filthy you could even hit him.

03:54Now every guy up hits him.

03:55The eight and nine hitters hit him.

03:58Every guy gets wood on his pitches.

04:01He's starting to go down the other side of the mountain in his career.

04:05His best years were in Houston and Pittsburgh when he was young.

04:09Let's face facts.

04:10He was great with the Pirates.

04:11But he was a postseason darling for the Astros.

04:15And he's been a flop for the Yankees.

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