Ace Gerrit Cole "on point'' in '26 debut, but Yankees can't solve Rays
Gerrit Cole made his return to the mound for the Yankees after a lengthy recovery from Tommy John surgery. He pitched six shutout innings but ultimately watched his team lose to the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2. The Rays capitalized on a late-game comeback, extending their lead in the AL East over the Yankees.
- ▪Gerrit Cole returned to the Yankees after 19 months, pitching six scoreless innings.
- ▪The Rays scored four runs in the eighth inning to secure a 4-2 victory.
- ▪Aaron Judge ended the game as the tying run but has struggled with only one hit in his last 24 at-bats.
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| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ace-gerrit-cole-point-26-071245116.html |
| Publication time | Sat, 23 May 2026 07:12:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-23T07:37:25.773Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-23T07:37:25.773Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | TLZWQBGsJ06_ · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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