What if Nestor Cortes could be even better than he was last year?
BALTIMORE — There were questions coming into the season about whether Nestor Cortes Jr. could repeat the strong performance he turned in as a surprise member of the Yankees’ rotation last year. Cortes struck out a career-high 12 batters across five more shutout innings on Sunday, including an immaculate inning, though the Yankees let it go to waste in“It’s fun to be out there every single time,” Cortes said. “When you’re on a roll like that, it makes it just a little sweeter.
Making Cortes’ performance even more impressive was the fact that he said he didn’t get comfortable until around the third inning. It was a cold and windy afternoon, which made it hard for Cortes to grip the ball early on, he said. In the first inning, Cortes gave up a one-out single and walk, but came back to strike out Anthony Santander and get Ryan McKenna to ground out to end the inning, going on cruise control from there.
Cortes made his money with his cutter. He threw it 36 times and it produced 10 swings and misses, including eight of his strikeouts.
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