Gerrit Cole walked off the mound slowly after the first inning, expecting to be stopped by umpires searching for banned sticky substances. "Certainly I didn't walk past him or be oblivious to the check the first couple times when there was inevitably no check," he said. "So, yeah, I thought about it a few times." Cole's explosive fastball was missing and his spin rate dropped as he pitched for the first time since Major League Baseball's crackdown on grip enhancers began. He allowed two runs and three hits in seven innings before turning over a lead to the Yankees' bullpen, and Ryan O'Hearn and the Kansas City Royals rallied for four runs in the eighth inning to beat New York 6-5 Tuesday night. read morehttps://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401228144
