The New York Yankees visited the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park last night and strangely the game was being televised nationally. Bob Costas, who can still paint black with 1990 mph fastballs, delivered play-by-play for MLB Network. It’s always a rare treat when that happens because his voice is synonymous with so many major 40 baseball moments aired on NBC. Polls show geriatric millennials are nostalgic.
He rose again in the bottom of the fifth inning until the moment Rafael Devers continued his dominance against Gerrit Cole with a ding in midfield.
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“Gerrit Cole could be tied for the Hall of Fame but Rafael Devers owns him,” Costas said as the ball nestled into the crowd and the score tightened. Both can be true. Both are true. Devers now has six longballs against Cole, who puts together a Cooperstown-worthy resume.
2022Any Yankees fan who didn’t like that call can take comfort in the fact that their team won the game. And in a 40-note that evolves to look more and more historic with each passing victory. Cole can take comfort in knowing he’s now 8-2 and on track to claim his fifth straight top-five finish in Cy Young voting.
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