CHICAGO — Nestor Cortes said it has been a little different. On the last road trip, he was hungry and grabbed an apple to eat in the dugout. It went viral, and last week he filmed a spot at MLB Network with the apple. During the last homestand, he was out in the bullpen and looked up to see three little boys not just wearing his jersey, they had put black tape over their top lips to copy his mustache.
“That was cool,” Cortes said of the little boys. “I signed some things for them. That was pretty cool. It’s very different now, people are recognizing me more and more.”
While everyone around baseball seems to be discovering how good Cortes is, the 27-year-old lefty just keeps doing his job and getting outs. Sunday, the Yankees managed just two hits, but Cortes took the run support and made it look like the game was always completely in hand. He pitched seven dominant innings as the Yankees beat the White Sox, 5-1, at Guaranteed Rate Field Sunday.
