HOUSTON (AP) Gerrit Cole rattles off the names of the pitching greats with ease, featuring the same command he shows with his vaunted four-seam fastball.
Bob Gibson. Tom Seaver. Don Drysdale.
Plus the guys he saw in person as a kid Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling when they dominated in October.
Now in the midst of perhaps the most remarkable run in baseball history, its his turn, starting Game 1 of the World Series.