New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole isn\'t concerned after he left Monday night\'s start against the Texas Rangers with a right calf cramp.
Cole left the mound after his warmup pitches in the seventh inning of New York\'s 8-4 victory.
\"Tried a couple things to get it to stop, and it just didn\'t stop. So, didn\'t seem like it was going to go away,\" the right-hander said. \"I wasn\'t super concerned. I just didn\'t think it was the right situation to keep trying to manipulate it out there.\"
Before his last warmup pitch, Cole lifted his right leg and tried to stretch. He bent twice, threw the warmup, then hopped and signaled to the bench.
\"Obviously, immediate concern. But it looks like it was hopefully just that, some cramping,\" Aaron Boone said. \"He seemed pretty good right now when we came in. So hopefully that\'s the case.\"
Cole, who turns 34 on Sunday, said he believes that is all it was, and something he felt only when following through on those warmup pitches. He said he didn\'t feel anything when he jogged out to the mound before that inning, or when he was walking and moving around after that.
Via Associated Press