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Gerrit Cole strikes out 10 in scoreless outing as Yankees beat Royals, 7-0

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May 28, 2026 - 02:39

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Gerrit Cole strikes out 10 in scoreless outing as Yankees beat Royals, 7-0

The Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals, 7-0, on Wednesday to complete the sweep.

New York has now won four straight games, improving to 34-22 on the season.

Here are the takeaways....

-- Making only his second start of the season, Gerrit Cole loked like his old self on Wednesday night. The right-hander tossed 6.2 scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts, allowing just four hits. His fastball topped out at 98.4 mph and averaged 96.3 mph on the night.

Cole opened with a 1-2-3 first inning, including back-to-back strikeouts of Bobby Witt Jr. and Vinnie Pasquantino. He let up his first hit of the night in the third inning on a double to Michael Massey, and after another strikeout, gave up a single to Maikel Garcia. Luckily, Cole got some help from Aaron Judge in RF, throwing out Massey at home on Garcia's single for the third out of the inning.

He stayed in a groove and retired eight straight from the fourth through sixth innings, including four strikeouts. Garcia snapped the streak with a two-out double, but he got Witt to fly out to end the frame. Cole got two outs in the seventh inning, and was then pulled after 79 pitches with a runner on first base.

-- Paul Goldschmidt got the Yanks first hit of the game in the top of the fourth inning and he'd come around to score on Ben Rice's triple off the LF wall. Rice would then score on Judge's sacrifice fly as New York took a 2-0 lead.

-- Goldschmidt and Rice reached base again in the top of the sixth inning, but Judge grounded into a 6-4-3 double play and Cody Bellinger flied out to end the scoring chance.

The duo bounced back in the seventh inning and found ways to produce for New York. Goldschmidt picked up an RBI on a bases-loaded walk and Rice drove in two more on a single to make it a 5-0 game. Rice finished 2-for-4 with three RBI and a walk, while Goldschmidt went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a walk.

-- McMahon added insurance runs in the top of the eighth inning with a two-run HR, pushing the lead to 7-0.

-- Fernando Cruz kept Cole's line clean by getting Lane Thomas to line out to right field for the third out of the seventh. He continued the shutout by tossing a 1-2-3 eighth inning and Camilo Doval got three groundouts in the ninth to close it down.