Gerrit Cole (New York Yankees) and Jack Flaherty (Los Angeles Dodgers) will take the hill for Sport 1 of the 2024 World Sequence on Friday night time at Dodger Stadium (8:08 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports activities app).
Cole, a six-time All-Star who’s in his fifth season with the Yankees, missed the primary 11 weeks of the MLB common season because of an elbow damage on his throwing arm (proper). Within the 17 begins he made, the 2023 American League Cy Younger winner posted a 3.41 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and 99 strikeouts throughout 95.0 innings. He adopted that up by posting a 3.31 ERA and 12 strikeouts throughout 16.1 innings in his first three postseason begins, highlighted by surrendering only one run in seven innings in New York’s closeout Sport 4 victory over the Kansas Metropolis Royals within the AL Division Sequence.
Then again, the Dodgers acquired Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers in July. In 10 regular-season begins for the Dodgers, Flaherty posted a 3.58 ERA, 1.28 WHIP and 61 strikeouts throughout 55.1 innings. Nevertheless, it has been a combined bag within the postseason for Flaherty; he surrendered 4 runs and eight runs in separate outings that got here in-between pitching seven scoreless innings in opposition to the New York Mets in Sport 1 of the NL Championship Sequence, good for a mixed 7.04 postseason ERA.
Now that you’ve the background on each Sport 1 starters, let’s go slightly bit deeper and see how each groups carried out in opposition to these two right-handers.
Here is how Dodgers hitters have fared in opposition to Cole (Andy Pages has by no means confronted him):
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- Teoscar Hernández: one house run, one RBI, seven strikeouts, .192/.250/.346 slash line (26 at-bats)
- Kiké Hernández: one house run, one RBI, three strikeouts, .381/.480/.667 slash line (21 at-bats)
- Shohei Ohtani: one house run, three RBIs, seven strikeouts, .200/.238/.400 slash line (20 at-bats)
- Freddie Freeman: one house run, two RBIs, seven strikeouts .350/.409/.650 slash line (20 at-bats)
- Mookie Betts: zero house runs, one RBI, one strikeout, .412/.444/.471 slash line (17 at-bats)
- Chris Taylor: zero house runs, zero RBIs, three strikeouts, .000/.000/.000 slash line (six at-bats)
- Tommy Edman: zero house runs, zero RBIs, two strikeouts, .000/.000/.000 slash line (5 at-bats)
- Will Smith: zero house runs, zero RBIs, one strikeout, .333/.333/.333 slash line (three at-bats)
- Max Muncy: zero house runs, zero RBIs, two strikeouts, .000/.400/.000 slash line (three at-bats)
Here is how Yankees hitters have fared in opposition to Flaherty (Aaron Choose, Giancarlo Stanton and Austin Wells have by no means confronted him):
- Anthony Rizzo: three house runs, six RBIs, two strikeouts, .429/.571/.905 slash line (21 at-bats)
- Juan Soto: zero house runs, one RBI, three strikeouts, .111/.467/.222 slash line (9 at-bats)
- Alex Verdugo: zero house runs, one RBI, zero strikeouts, .250/.200/.250 slash line (4 at-bats)
- Gleyber Torres: zero house runs, zero RBIs, zero strikeouts, .333/.333/.333 slash line (three at-bats)
- Anthony Volpe: zero house runs, zero RBIs, one strikeout, .000/.000/.000 slash line (two at-bats)
- Oswaldo Cabrera: zero house runs, zero RBIs, zero strikeouts, .500/.500/.500 slash line (two at-bats)
- Jon Berti: zero house runs, zero RBIs, one strikeout, .000/.000/.000 slash line (two at-bats)
- Jazz Chisholm: zero house runs, zero RBIs, one strikeout, .000/.500/.000 slash line (one at-bat)
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