Gerrit Cole's 1st Curve Start.

[Burgh Sports Rule]

From the Altoona Curve's Website: Altoona defeated New Britain 9 - 4

Gerrit Cole W

5IP, 5H, 2R, 2ER, 0BB, 6K, 0HR, 3.60 ERA

Robbie Grossman hit a 3 Run HR in the win.

Brock Holt continues to rake. Jarek Cunningham hit well tonight, with 2 hits.

Also, Matt Curry was activated from the DL & had a hit & an RBI.

Good news all around. Cole, very solid in his 1st AA start.

Burgh

 

[Etrius24]

good news indeed.... and go Robbie Grossman

 

[magnumo]

From the Altoona Curve's Website: Altoona defeated New Britain 9 - 4

Gerrit Cole W

5IP, 5H, 2R, 2ER, 0BB, 6K, 0HR, 3.60 ERA

Robbie Grossman hit a 3 Run HR in the win.

Brock Holt continues to rake. Jarek Cunningham hit well tonight, with 2 hits.

Also, Matt Curry was activated from the DL & had a hit & an RBI.

Good news all around. Cole, very solid in his 1st AA start.

Burgh

Yeah..... "solid" is an appropriate adjective. The Pirates' page at MLB.com used the same adjective, headlining their story as "Cole solid in first Double-A start."

Unfortunately, the Post Gazette story headlines with "Cole lights out in Altoona debut." In my view, "lights out" is a totally inappropriate description and creates a misleading headline..... which is especially inappropriate for a professional sportswriter. When I read that a starting pitcher was "lights out," I expect perhaps to see a complete game, low-hit win, or a guy pitching particularly effectively late into the game..... or maybe even giving up 0 or 1 run over 6 innings or so. But two earned runs on 5 hits in 5 innings is NOT "lights out." Heck, it's not even a "quality start," under THAT dubious definition. An ERA of 3.60 is NOT "lights out." Decent..... solid..... but NOT "lights out." It was a good start for Cole at AA, and I especially like that he didn't walk anyone.

But shame on the author for inappropriate use of a superlative.

 

[Illinest]

I heard from someone who was there that only one of those five hits was well struck.

 

[thecrow124]

Yeah..... "solid" is an appropriate adjective. The Pirates' page at MLB.com used the same adjective, headlining their story as "Cole solid in first Double-A start."

Unfortunately, the Post Gazette story headlines with "Cole lights out in Altoona debut." In my view, "lights out" is a totally inappropriate description and creates a misleading headline..... which is especially inappropriate for a professional sportswriter. When I read that a starting pitcher was "lights out," I expect perhaps to see a complete game, low-hit win, or a guy pitching particularly effectively late into the game..... or maybe even giving up 0 or 1 run over 6 innings or so. But two earned runs on 5 hits in 5 innings is NOT "lights out." Heck, it's not even a "quality start," under THAT dubious definition. An ERA of 3.60 is NOT "lights out." Decent..... solid..... but NOT "lights out." It was a good start for Cole at AA, and I especially like that he didn't walk anyone.

But shame on the author for inappropriate use of a superlative.

In the writers defense, a section of lights actually went out while Cole was warming up for the 5th inning, hence, the "lights out" headline. However, I agree that it is not a true description of the start for Cole.

 

[element1286]

I'm usually more interested in the K/BB and groundballs, grade A job on two out of three.