Mazz: Were the Red Sox cheating against the Yankees?
Paul Perillo from Patriots.com joined the Felger and Massarotti show on Monday with Tony Massarotti and Joe Murray. Tony, Paul and Joe wonder if the Red Sox were cheating against pitcher Gerrit Cole and the Yankees during their three game series sweep in New York.
Transcript:
Mazz: Gerrit Cole. He pitched Saturday. Red Sox hit him around. He gave up a grand slam to Luis Arias and then gave up a two-run homer to Connor Wong. Six runs in the game. Remember when Cole pitched against the Red Sox in the one game playoff pack in 2021. Bogaerts homered against them in the first inning but the that one I almost put an asterisk next to because he had a bad hamstring that whole second half. Couldn’t drive or couldn’t land properly. I remember which hamstring it was, but it affected him on the mound. You’ll hear pitchers say every single time that if their legs go their screw, you get some sort of leg injury on the mound. Forget it, you can’t pitch. So we focus on the arm, but there’s just no leg driver, no strength, no foundation underneath, so that when I throw out, we know the numbers against Devers well-documented. Rafael Devers owns Gerrit Cole. But that comment there, he’s mystified, mystified at how they were able to execute against him like they do. Joe Murray, what did you interpret in that?
Joe Murray: I’m just a little bit confused on why the level of execution on their side is so high. So what are you saying? Garrett Cole The same guy that couldn’t take accountability because you sucked. Be remember the sticky stuff, you go, Oh, where is the accountability there the most? So whenever he gets beat up, he’s got to go look at what the team has done in the past to bring it up. I’m not saying the Red Sox are angels by any means. Yes.
Paul Perillo: Calling them cheaters. He’s calling them cheaters and saying that they knew the pictures that were coming in. He’s good. I don’t know if he’s even giving them credit, but come on, who says that after getting your ass kicked, just get out there and say, Hey, man, I didn’t have my best stuff today. Leave it at that. Insinuating that the team really had an edge in this game. I’m sorry. That’s why they’ve lost eight in a row and that’s why they’re losing it on that roster. Like this guy is supposed to be. Their ace is great. Don’t get me wrong. He sucked. He should’ve owned it. Don’t now point fingers at the Red Sox because, oh, yeah, their manager might be cheating. Come on, now, look at me. If I find out the Red Sox cheat, I’ll take the ball. But this dude here takes some accountability.
Mazz: Jimmy, did you Jimmy Stewart, did you read into those comments the way that Joe did?
J Stew: I did. Well, here’s the thing that Tom Verducci was obnoxious about saying on the broadcast is that the Red Sox were just out. We’re just waiting on the four seam fastball or they were waiting out some cutter or some pitch to get to the four seam fastball that they knew that they could hammer. So the whole approach for the Red Sox, according to Tom Verducci, who spent six innings, would not shut up about it because we all know Tom Verducci knows more about baseball than everybody else, that they’re just waiting on fastballs and they just hammered them.
Mazz: Paul, you think they think he’s accusing the Red Sox of cheating?
Joe Murray: Yeah, he first of all, I think nothing of Cole, the person. I think he has comments like this all the time that make him look like a clown.
Mazz: But remember, this is I mean, this is a guy who won the World Series with Houston. And then immediately after the game was wearing a free agency cap, wouldn’t wear the Houston cap.
![Yankee's Gerrit Cole in pitching against the Red Sox during opening day action at Yankee Stadium April 8, 2022. (Syndication: The Record)](https://985thesportshub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2022/04/Gerrit-Cole-copy.jpg)
Yankee’s Gerrit Cole in pitching against the Red Sox during opening day action at Yankee Stadium April 8, 2022. (Syndication: The Record)
Joe Murray: And that’s what he that’s kind of how I think of him. Now, you made a point earlier in the show, Tony, this is not one game for Cole. The Red Sox have completely pounded the crap out of Gerrit Cole as a Yankee and. He really doesn’t have that happen against anybody else. Now, I think that he’s probably insinuating that they’re cheating, but I would think if I were Garrett Cole, I would look more into something that the Red Sox have seen, something that you’re doing. You got to be tipping your pitches against them. That’s not cheating. There’s a difference there. And I would look in the mirror if I were cold and figure out why do they seem to be sitting on everything I throw when. You know they’re not. They know it’s not. Does it make any sense? The Red Sox are doing an elaborate job of cheating only against Garrett Cole. Not doing it against the other guys. Like, does that make any sense to anybody? You know, it’s not like that. They’re, you know, the best offensive team in the history of baseball. They’re a good offensive team. They’ve got like everybody else, they’ve been up and down all year. Offensively. But against coal. They hammer home every time. He’s got to be tipping it.
Mazz: Yeah, I mean, that’s what I think. I think it’s something like that that he’s.
Joe Murray: I think that’s more plausible than the Red Sox are cheating again after they just got caught.
Paul Perillo: The way they say it, why is he saying it then?
Joe Murray: Well, maybe he’s not saying it.
Mazz: Well, look, because, Joe, what you said is true. He’s a winner.
Joe Murray: Oh, I agree. Everything Joe said was true.
Mazz: I mean, he is a guy who bitched about the spider tack and had difficulties immediately thereafter. And, you know, but look, he’s a good guy. He’s a talented. He got over it. There’s no question about he’s a talented pitcher.
Paul Perillo: They’re confused on their level of execution.
Mazz: Correct?
Paul Perillo: Confused. What’s confusing?
Joe Murray: He’s tipping the pitches. That’s why he’s confused. He doesn’t know that he’s doing it. But they they clearly know what he’s throwing.
Paul Perillo: I don’t.
Joe Murray: Know. You don’t hit a guy like that that has an era of, what, two and a half? And against the Red Sox, which is the era.
Mazz: Of 4.7 or so.
Joe Murray: It’s night and day.
Mazz: He gets he’s giving up more home runs to the Red Sox in his career than any other franchise.
Joe Murray: But I don’t think it has to be because of cheating. This is where I agree with Joe. Like either man up and say that they’re cheating or shut up. This is I am totally with Joe on that part because I don’t like coal probably.
J Stew: But I put in all this work on this great pitching game plan and they just spit on it. Boo Hoo!
Mazz: There’s no sympathy for this guy.