Official Site of the Pirates · May 7, 2015
'A good run': Cole's 8-game win streak ended
Cole gets out of the jam 0:20 5/6/15: Gerrit Cole, with runners on second and third, gets Brandon Phillips to ground out to end the inning and escape the jam PITTSBURGH -- It was a helpless night for Gerrit Cole. He couldn't put an end to the Pirates' slide -- although to do that, he would've had to allow negative runs, which haven't yet been invented, since the Reds' Mike Leake put a 3-0 chokehold on them.
And Cole couldn't explain his possible role in the third-inning dust-up that got Reds first baseman Joey Votto so angry he wound up nearly head-butting an umpire.
"I don't really know what happened. I didn't see anything," Cole said of the aftermath of an inning-ending strikeout of Votto.