Impact of Pitch Count: Did Pulling Gerrit Cole Change Momentum?

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00:00Real, I think, turning point of this series is still goes back to, what did he throw last

00:10night?

00:11108 pitches, Cole.

00:13If they let him throw 108 pitches in game one, this series might be a little different.

00:18If they let him throw 108 pitches in game one, instead of taking him out at 88, like

00:22they did.

00:23I still think that taking Cole out in game one was where the ball really started to roll

00:28down the hill on that decision that they made.

00:32You could tell last night, Cole had enough gas for 108.

00:36He threw 108 pitches and 40 of them were in one inning.

00:40I mean, 40 of the 108 were in one inning that he threw.

00:45Here he is talking about not covering first base.

00:48What's your impression of what happened at first base?

00:51Yeah, I think I took a bad angle to the ball.

00:57I wasn't sure really off the bat how hard he hit it.

01:01I took a direct angle to it as if to cut it off because I just didn't know how hard he

01:07hit it.

01:08And, you know, by the time the ball got by me, you know, I was not in a position to cover

01:14first.

01:15So, you know, I mean, neither of us were based on the spin of the baseball and him having

01:23to secure it and, you know, just a bad read off the bat.

01:28I think that was the shack I've ever listened to.

01:31Like he just didn't cover first.

01:33That's all you needed to say.

01:35I saw this as well, that by the time that that had happened, that Cole was mentally

01:42fatigued from everything that had happened in the inning and lost himself.

01:47Mentally fatigued.

01:48So many bad things that happened.

01:50He just blew away Lux and Otani, the two batters before that.

01:54Blew them away.

01:55He struck those two guys out to get the two outs before the bets at bat.

01:58So I don't want to hear that either.