two months,<\/a> he did not throw a pitch against the Yankees but drew laughs and chuckles and discourse when he said his former team had \u201ctwo hitters\u201d, a reference to Aaron Judge and Juan Soto.<\/p>\nThe quip referenced a group text chain with past and current Yankees and was made on July 19 after it was announced Severino was not facing team in Yankee Stadium. Severino watched all four games as the Mets swept the four-game season series which occurred while the Yankees were in their worst swoon of the season after winning 45 of their first 64 games.<\/p>\n
Severino\u2019s time in Queens lasted one season as he signed with the A\u2019s on a three-year deal, the largest for a free agent in franchise history. His first 49 2\/3 innings went pretty well but facing a lineup but the four against the Yankees did not and continued his struggles at his new home ballpark which can make things hairy for pitches especially on windy days.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough to pitch here,\u201d Severino said. \u201cYou have a routine for your whole life. You come here and you have to work around whatever you have here. It\u2019s tough. But like I always say, this is what we have. We have to do anything we can to go out there and compete.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only hitters in the lineup Severino was joking about still on the Yankees are Judge, Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, Ben Rice and Oswaldo Cabrera. Those hitters were a combined 5-for-10 off Severino, whose ERA climbed to 4.70 after he allowed eight runs and nine hits.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees’ Ben Rice, right, celebrates with Aaron Judge after hitting a grand slam during the … More fifth inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Sunday, May 11, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo\/Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez)<\/p>\n
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Even if they privately seethed about Severino\u2019s remark or even considered the quip to be motivational bulletin board material, the Yankees know better not to air those opinions in public and opt for the diplomatic route as evidenced by what Judge told reporters in West Sacramento.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great to face Sevy,\u201d Judge said. \u201cHe\u2019s always a tough at-bat. He\u2019s a guy that\u2019s got five or six different pitches and can work it all over the zone. He\u2019s been one of the top pitchers in the game for a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys just had good at-bats. We were able to put the ball in play. You put the ball in play against him; some good things are going to happen. We got a lot of traffic out there and sticked some singles out there to get some runs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tagging Severino highlighted the Yankees\u2019 first visit to the A\u2019s current and alleged temporary home ballpark and they scored 29 runs on 38 hits. Eight of those were homers, including the three by Jasson Dominguez on Friday and Sunday, the Yankees finished with double-digit hits for the eighth time through 40 games.<\/p>\n
Last year the Yankees had double-digit hits 51 times and this year\u2019s offense appears more athletic even as it leads the sport in homers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he knew that (last year),\u201d manager Aaron Boone told reporters about Severino\u2019s quip. \u201ci think he was having some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Severino\u2019s quip may have had some validity at a time when the Yankees were slumping and even as they recovered to win 94 games and reach their first World Series since 2009, there were still some doubts about the offense.<\/p>\n
The Yankees still have a ways to go until the real prove it time occurs in the setting of postseason baseball. In the meantime, they are setting it up well as the first Subway Series with the Mets looms next weekend and Soto\u2019s return to get a look at a more athletic version of the Yankees.<\/p>\n
\u201cUp and down the lineup, we got guys who can produce and do damage,\u201d Rice told reporters after his grand slam gave him nine homers. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics pitcher Luis Severino, right, hands the ball over to manager Mark Kotsay, left, was he … More…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1797,106,963,5,134,1327,4,1690,61,62,2548,2547,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-20780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-aaron-judge","10":"tag-as","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-juan-soto","13":"tag-luis-severino","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-mets","17":"tag-new-york-yankees","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkyankees","20":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114494217174041651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}