Nestor Cortes blamed his terrible return to The Bronx on a easy issue: The Yankees know him higher than anybody else.
And on Saturday, they made him pay.
After the sport, Cortes left Yankee Stadium with out chatting with reporters. On Sunday morning, he acknowledged it was a “brutal” afternoon.
“Five walks hurt me a lot,’’ Cortes said. “I feel they know what type of pitcher I am and what I do and [what] my strategy is. It’s my fault to not have deviated from that.”
The technique for the Yankees included leaping on Cortes’ first pitch, as Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Aaron Choose all hit homers on first-pitch fastballs to open the sport.
“They had a plan and executed it well and I didn’t,’’ Cortes said. “They were ambushing. They know I throw fastballs, they know I throw fastballs often, and they know the location I’m going to. It was on me for not making the adjustment earlier- or at all the whole day — because the whole day was brutal for me. I’m gonna learn from it.”
Cortes stated he felt advantageous bodily and was prepared to maneuver on to his subsequent begin after permitting eight runs — and 5 homers — in two innings within the 20-9 defeat at Yankee Stadium.
All of these stats have been career-worsts for the lefty, who was traded to the Brewers within the offseason as a part of a package deal in trade for nearer Devin Williams.
“Obviously, when you allow eight runs, it’s not a good feeling,’’ Cortes said. “It didn’t go the way I planned.”
He referred to as it “a little weird” pitching towards his former workforce.
“I spent a few years over there and was able to be on their side and not have to face them,” Cortes stated. “This comes with the territory, being a major league pitcher, you never know where you’re gonna end up. You’re face somebody you know. It happened to be yesterday.”
