Alek Manoah did not back down last August, when Gerrit Cole led the charge of outraged Yankees spilling onto the field, and he is not backing down now.
called Cole the “worst cheater” in baseball history“I said what I said,” Manoah said before his Blue Jays and the Yankees opened a series in The Bronx on Friday night.
“It was a game show, and I wasn’t trying to drink cricket tea,” said Manoah, who added he has “never really talked” with Cole. The drama between the two began in earnest on Aug. 21, when Manoah drilled Aaron Judge with an up-and-in, 91-mph sinker that prompted Judge to take a couple of steps toward the mound and share some words with Manoah.
After Manoah listened to Cole yell at him from foul territory, he challenged Cole, through the media, to go closer. Cole has acknowledged that he had to adjust following Major League Baseball’s enforcement of the foreign-substance ban and has not directly answered whether he formerly used Spider Tack, a particularly sticky paste, to improve his spin rates. Since the ban, Cole has still been effective and might be at his best this season, pitching to a 0.95 ERA in four starts.
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