{"id":639387,"date":"2026-03-23T18:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/639387\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:44:18","slug":"athletics-luis-severino-to-start-opening-day-against-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/639387\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics&#8217; Luis Severino to start Opening Day against Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/luis-severino\/fa34724d-b540-4705-9d2c-7f50f81865b3\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"fa34724d-b540-4705-9d2c-7f50f81865b3\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luis Severino<\/a> will get the start for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/oakland-athletics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"oakland-athletics\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Athletics<\/a> when the teams open the 2026 season on Friday at Rogers Centre (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays will counter with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/kevin-gausman\/cef2e01f-1349-4e31-bf1e-757ae8cb6bc6\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"cef2e01f-1349-4e31-bf1e-757ae8cb6bc6\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kevin Gausman<\/a> on Opening Day followed by Dylan Cease and Eric Lauer.<\/p>\n<p>Severino, 32, posted a 4.54 ERA and 1.303 WHIP in 29 starts for the Athletics last season. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Vladimir-Guerrero-Jr-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MLB on Sportsnet\"\/>MLB on Sportsnet<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Toronto Blue Jays, Blue Jays Central pre-game, marquee MLB matchups, Jays in 30, original documentaries, the wild card, divisional series, championship series and entire World Series on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former New York Yankee joined the Athletics ahead of last season after spending 2024 with the New York Mets. He was a teammate of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.&#8217;s with the Dominican Republic at the World Baseball Classic, where he appeared in two games, allowing two earned runs over 7.1 innings while striking out 11.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 35-year-old Gausman will get his first career opening-day start with the Blue Jays after pitching to 3.59 ERA over 32 starts last season and posting a 2.93 ERA over six post-season appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Springs, 33, made 32 appearances with the Athletics last season, recording a 4.65 ERA and 138 strikeouts over 171 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Morales, 23, made his MLB debut with the team last season, pitching in 10 games with a 3.14 ERA and 43 punchouts over 48.2 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Severino will get the start for the Athletics when the teams open the 2026 season on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-639387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116279973775074150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639387","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=639387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}