I don’t know if the Twins are the cure for what ails the Yankees, but they’ve certainly been able to treat the club’s symptoms this week. New York has won all three of the previous games in this series, sweeping a doubleheader yesterday, and can continue their near-farcical dominance of the Twinkies tonight behind Nestor Cortes.
All season long, Cortes and Gerrit Cole have gone back and forth as the nominal Yankee ace, and Nestor will now be asked to follow Cole’s 14-strikeout performance last night. He’s making his first start since returning from the IL with a bum hamstring, but his 2.