When watching Gerrit Cole during Game 1, the Yankees' pitching coach saw potential for catastrophe, writes stephapstein Instead, he stayed cool during his first postseason home start as a Yankee and delivered a win:
’ Steven Kwan and watched it land in the right field stands. He had hit the next batter, and the one after that had doubled. Blake had trudged to the mound to remind Cole to keep the moment small, to focus pitch by pitch, to miss in the right places.
“The inning kind of continued to go,” Blake said when it was over and the Yankees had won 4–1 on the strength of Cole’s best playoff start in two years. “It felt like the moments kept building, and I thought for him, that was great to just continue to keep it small, continue to execute.” Cole, 32, grew up a Yankees fan in Newport Beach, Calif., and he can sometimes assign too much importance to his role as the ace of his childhood club. This was his first playoff start here for the home team, and he was keenly aware of what that meant. His great challenge, Blake said, is to “release the ‘perfect’ notion and just be really good.”
And then as the third inning began, he noticed what he called “a conscious effort there to be a little more disciplined to the breaking ball.” So he began leaning on his four-seamer to keep them off balance.
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