Thanks to Michael Kay for this tidbit: After tonight’s solid 5-1 win over the Tigers, the Yankees are 69-69 in a season for the first time since 1969. And for the first time in a long summer, Yankees baseball feels... good? Giancarlo Stanton launched his 400th career home run and Jasson Domínguez doubled and scored in support of Gerrit Cole, who has had many sharper nights but still delivered six innings of one-run ball, picking up his 13th win of the year, tied for the AL lead with Kyle Gibson, Chris Bassitt, and Zach Eflin.
Gerrit Cole wasn’t super Gerrit Cole tonight, but he was still very Gerrit Cole in the sense that even on a night in which his command wasn’t terribly sharp, and opposing hits were there for the taking, he still managed five shutdown innings to open up the action, keeping the Tigers off the board despite allowing at least one hit in five of six innings.