BALTIMORE — Nestor Cortes could have a souvenir to recollect Sunday’s immaculate inning by — even when it took some bartering from Gerrit Cole.
After Cortes struck out the facet on 9 pitches within the fourth inning in opposition to the Orioles, catcher Kyle Higashioka jogged off the sphere and tossed the ball into the stands behind the Yankees’ dugout at Camden Yards.
Higashioka instantly confronted some grief upon getting into the dugout — with Cole and different teammates showing to chant “disgrace” and “a– gap” in his route.
However Cole was capable of retrieve the ball from the stands, giving the fan who caught it one other ball (maybe together with his signature on it) in alternate for the sport ball.
![Yankees starting pitcher Nestor Cortes (65) delivers a pitch during the third inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, April 17, 2022, in Baltimore.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Yankees_Orioles_Baseball.1-1.jpg?w=1024)
Cortes’ immaculate inning got here amid a stretch of six straight strikeouts. He later exited the sport within the sixth inning with a brand new career-high of 12 strikeouts, surpassing the 11 punchouts he recorded in opposition to the Orioles final September.
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