Luis Severino’s return to Yankee Stadium — greater than a season within the making — would’ve been a spectacle even with out the added context.
Even with out his title swirling in commerce rumors. Even with out Severino evaluating video games at Sutter Well being Park, the minor league stadium in West Sacramento, Calif., internet hosting the Athletics till they full their Las Vegas transfer, to “spring coaching” and ripping it as a listless place to pitch.
Even with out his postgame admission Sunday that he spent a current bullpen session making an attempt to determine if he was tipping pitches — a difficulty the Yankees spent years making an attempt to repair.
All of that collided throughout Severino’s dud in The Bronx, the place he did not make it out of the fourth inning through the Yankees’ 12-5 win, surrendered seven runs — six earned — and struggled with command (three walks, two hit batters).
Neither Severino nor A’s supervisor Mark Kotsay thought pitch-tipping performed a task, and Severino didn’t remorse being “trustworthy” together with his ideas in regards to the A’s ballpark.
He can’t management if he will get traded earlier than the July 31 deadline, however he acknowledged that that is “not the yr I used to be planning.”
“I imply, in the event that they commerce me or not, I’m gonna preserve grinding, making an attempt to be my greatest self,” Severino, who pitched for the Yankees from 2015-23, mentioned. “… I can do nothing about in the event that they get mad [at the ballpark comments] or not. I simply say what it’s, you realize. I’m not gonna go on the market — should you ask me how I really feel pitching at house, I’m not gonna misinform you. As a result of on the finish, you guys are gonna work out if it’s a lie or not. … I used to be not making an attempt to, I imply, harm no person’s emotions by saying that, however I believe I’m not the one one who feels the identical means.”
Severino noticed “little issues” from his prior begin that didn’t categorically recommend tipping, however “a lot of the tippings should not one hundred pc.
They’re like 70 or 80 %.” He labored on glove positioning, modified up mechanics forward and felt enchancment Sunday at the start unraveled.
One yr after Severino’s “two good hitters” jab whereas with the Mets, the Yankees, for a second time in 2025, compelled an early exit.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. despatched the primary pitch of the second inning over the fence, and Severino loaded the bases within the third earlier than surrendering a triple to Chisholm.
Then, Aaron Choose drove in two extra runs with a fourth-inning homer. For a Yankees group caught in a weeks-long funk, Severino served because the antidote.
Maybe he might be again in New York Metropolis once more simply over a month from now, if the Mets commerce for him.
Maybe he’ll must accept pitching in Sacramento.
However Severino’s prevailing thought, after permitting 29 earned runs throughout his previous six begins, was that the struggling pitcher who retains showing “isn’t me.”
“This isn’t near being me,” Severino mentioned, “the numbers that I’ve.”
