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GERRIT COLE AND THE SLOWEST THROW OF HIS CAREER – BUT IT MADE THE ENTIRE YANKEE STADIUM CRY.Y1

July 8, 2025 by mrs a

Eli Joseph, 9, lives in a small neighborhood near the Bronx. He has everything a New York kid needs: a love of baseball, a dream of becoming a professional player, and… a pair of eyes that are slowly fading.

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Eli has a rare degenerative retinal disease. The doctors told him bluntly: “He will be completely blind in two to three weeks.”

Eli’s mother asked him what he wanted to do most before he lost his sight. He didn’t hesitate:

“I want to see Gerrit Cole pitch at Yankee Stadium. Just once.”

News about Eli reached the Yankees locker room. Not through the media. But through a volunteer at the hospital where Eli was being treated. Gerrit Cole heard it and asked just one question:

“When is the next home game?”

July 14, the Yankees played the Mariners. A regular season game, not a playoff game. But that day, the Yankees wore a small “EJ” logo on their sleeves. The crowd didn’t notice.

In the first inning, when Gerrit Cole stepped onto the mound, everyone was expecting a fiery comeback from injury. But contrary to expectations, Cole threw a 72-mph ball, soft and curvy.

And what no one saw on TV was the way Eli—from his special dugout seats—followed that ball with his eyes that were about to die.

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At the end of the inning, Cole walked over to the boy, placed that first ball in Eli’s hands, and whispered,
“Keep it, kid. That pitch is yours.”

A week later, and the story that made social media tearful
Eli’s mother wrote on social media:
“Eli can’t see my face clearly anymore. But every night he says:
‘Mom, I still see that pitch. It’s slow, very slow. But I still see it, right here.’
And he puts his hand on his heart.”

For Gerrit Cole, that day wasn’t a day of statistics. Not about ERA or strikeouts. But it was a moment when he marked a child with light – before that light left him forever.

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And that child – Eli – will never forget the tall man, quietly stepping out of the bullpen, not saying much, but leaving the whole sky with a pitch.

“It’s not because people are famous. It’s because they know how to use fame to keep what time is about to take away.” – A commentator wrote on ESPN after that game.

 

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