NEW YORK – The crowd noise was phony. Gerrit Cole’s scowl was real.The new ace gave up consecutive home runs to Mike Ford and Miguel Andújar in an intrasquad game as the pitcher and the public-address system's recorded crowd sounds tuned up for New York Yankees debuts.Those runs in the fourth inning were the only ones Cole allowed over 5 2/3 innings Friday night.
He struck out seven, walked none and hit a batter, throwing 87 pitches.“The back-to-back homers were undesirable from my perspective,” he said. “Just kind of got into a position there where I was spraying some breaking balls and just kind of became noncompetitive.