Twins vs. Yankees Game Highlights (4/16/23) | MLB Highlights

This is going to be one heck of a pitching matchup maybe the two best pitchers in the American League right now Pablo for the twins and Garrett Cole for the New York Yankees Cole's been great so far with a three and Omar in a one point four oh we are a twenty two strikeouts in nineteen in the third inning's pitch swing and a miss down goes Julián start to oh and then all of a sudden boom boom boom strikeout overpowering fastball up in the strike zone little humpback line drive on one hop to Torres and he gets Correa for now Cole's one two struck him out swing took a terrible hack. The ball was already in the middle of Trevino. Well Cole has a one two three out of a half Pablo Lopez starts game four. He had a rough start to his most recent start but then made a quick adjustment and dominated the White Sox. He struck him out swinging climbed the ladder at ninety seven up and inside lined in the left center field. It's a base hit two out single for Rizzo his 17th hit the year ground ball and three for a base hit under the glove of Solano as Rizzo stops at second and that takes care of it. Two hits left the board a scoreless first. There is his cousins at the game Lin Manuel Miranda. How cool is that. This is the genius that wrote Hamilton sees himself on. Yes he gets all excited. That's right. Watching his cousin play. Pretty cool hit on the ground a third double play ball feed second one on the first. It's a double play of five four four three D.P. Wild pitch advancing the runner two cracks at a base hit for a run a little dribbler down third going to be a tough play. Miranda barehands fires got him on the third goes Cabrera Lopez the stretch and a payoff pitch is strike three Cole Hicks strikes out looking Yankees leave a man at third after two no score. Now here's Cole's one two to Kepler strike three inside corner one away. Now that strikeout gives Cole one thousand nine hundred and fifty five in his career ties Bobby Witt senior for 98 on the all time list. And next up is Whitey Ford. This has been a long standing one here. This has gone on a long time and Severino is talking like nothing's happening. Now Cole's three to struck him out swinging high fastball. That was ninety eight. Now he got it. Just a thirty fifth walk issued by the twins staff this year and the breaking ball is low inside one another. Now they're saying it brushed him. You can't really tell if it changes directions off the foot. Well the twins are using their challenge and the Yankees are either going to have runners at first and second and one out or Rizzo is going to have to come back to the plate. After you the call on the field stands hit by Pitts Minnesota will lose their challenge two down and now it's LeMahieu Lopez trying to straddle two more runners. Runners go. That one's line to right field. It is a base hit in front of Kepler. Judd scores easily moving to third as Rizzo hits an RBI single for LeMahieu and the Yankees lead one nothing. And every time you see LeMahieu in the way he handles the bat you understand what was missing last year. That ball came into him. So he went the opposite way with that line drive swing Pablo from the stretch runner stay and the one want to swing to fly ball right center playable Taylor to his left. He'll call and catch it out number three. But the Yankees score one leave two at the end of three. We go to the fourth Yankees have a one nothing lead. Garrett Cole has not allowed a hit swing and a miss a great breaking ball down and in. He is a strikeout machine. Now that strikeout ties Cole with the chairman of board Whitey Ford and here is Buxton. How about that Buxton strikes out Cole strikes out the side. Now Cole moves ahead of Whitey Ford. It'll be the top of the Yankee order Volpe judge and Rizzo ground it and grab backhand by Moran the long throw not infield single and a pitch. Swung on a missed elevated fastball got him to chase six strikeouts. Now for Pablo Lopez Werner goes it's a stolen base for Volpe a seventh of the year. No throw from Vasquez as Lopez is eighty third pitch breaking ball ground ball a shortstop Correa gobbles it up strong throw to retired Torres and ends the threat they strand him at second LeMahieu base hit RBI his last time up. That's it. One nothing Yankees high fly ball right. He's on the track. See a homerun just over the leaping try of Kepler into portions to nothing. David John makes long gone. He homers to right and the Yankees take a two nothing lead and LeMahieu is knocked in both Yankee runs with a single and a homerun eight strikeouts one walk allows just two hits over six innings. His pitch total is in good shape at eighty four. Byron Buxton will lead off against Cole strike three strikeout number nine. And what do you say Michael. I mean it's pretty much a clinic very tough day to be a hitter for the Minnesota Twins. High fly ball deep right going back Cabrera on the track makes the play Cabrera went back and look who's it very high. And he waited and he waited and then he saw it right against the fence and put his glove up and Garrett Cole was laughing because he had no idea. Is it gone. And the pitch is grounded a short Volpe near second throws to first and Garrett Cole has another one two three. It's been great. Absolutely great Yankees with a two nothing lead Solano pops it up and see if there's room. Did he make the catch. He tumbles over into the dugout. Does he have the ball. He does not have the ball but what an effort by Trevino swing and a miss strikeout number ten for Garrett Cole. That's his twenty third game with double digit strikeouts and he ties Ron Gittler for the most in Yankee history. Soft ground ball a first base Rizzo steps on the bag to get Kepler two away up the middle. Nice hop there for Volpe. He stays with it. And that's an easy one two three inning. And Garrett Cole has another one two three inning and very few pitches. No action right now in the Yankee bullpen. Ninety eight pitchers for Cole through eight innings. So Garrett Cole will try to spin a complete game here on a Sunday afternoon in the Bronx. So face nine one and two. So from 0 2 to 3 2. Here's the payoff swung on and popped him up shallow right. Who's going to catch it. It's Gleyber Torres out to make a little basket catch one away and the pitch upstairs two and one and now a conference on the mound. And that's what they figured out with this clock trying to close out a complete game. You have a tendency to really start to concentrate more slow down a little bit. But the pitch clock does not allow you to do that. We're a little conference call you had at the mound. Give him a little break looped in the left field coming on his hits. He's there one out away one hundred and eight pitches one out away from a complete game shutout. He's allowed two hits one walk. And here's Correa. Hot right center going back as Judge Cabrera is the game shutout for the Bronx ball game over. Yankees win the Yankees. Oh and Garrett Cole was phenomenal today. Everything working overpowering fastball. They let their ace finish it out one hundred and nine pitches it took.