If you came into Sunday’s game looking forward to a Gerrit Cole start, you probably got what you wanted. Cole looked every bit as good as he’s been to start the season, with a nasty 60-percent whiff rate on his changeup and not surrendering a single walk. If you want to know how the Mets must feel every time Jacob deGrom starts, it’s probably close to how you felt watching the Yankees squander such a sterling start from their ace. New York was swept at home by the Rays, dropping Sunday’s contest, 4-2.
My profile photo on this site has been a painting entitled “I Often Fall Prey To The Popular Fallacy Known As Positive Thinking” for quite a while, and I admit, I got my hopes up early that this would be a nice, easy blowout win.