Luis Severino waited nearly two months to make his season debut and the long-awaited moment Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo are rolling in.
Severino returns from a late strain and hopes to see Judge and Rizzo as he produces more big hits new York Yankees Go for a three-game sweep of the hosts Cincinnati Reds on Sunday
Severino, who had missed two months with the same injury the previous season, returned for the first time since ALCS Game 2 in a 3–2 loss to the Houston Astros on October 20. Texas on October 3. That effort capped a season where he went 7–3–19 with a 3.18 ERA spread over 102 innings from Tommy John surgery.
He made two rehab starts and returned to the team with 13 wins in his last 18 games after a 3–2 loss to Cleveland on May 1.
Severino is 1-0 with a 4.00 ERA in two career starts against redswhom he faced on July 13 and was injured after allowing three straight homers in the second
New York manager Aaron Boone said, “He’s a great pitcher and I’m looking forward to him being a part of this rotation.” “I know the kind of impact he can make for us.”
Boone also knows the kind of impact Judge and Rizzo have been making as of late. Judge went 4-for-4, reached base five times and hit the tiebreaking single in the 10th inning before Rizzo hit a two-run homer in Saturday’s 7-4 win.
Yankees 9-3 as Judge returned from a brief injured list stint due to a right hip strain. Since returning, he is batting .378 (17-for-45) with seven homers and 18 RBI.
“I try not to think about being in a hot streak,” he said. “It’s about going out there and assessing the situation. I look at who’s on the mound and what I need to do to help the team.”
Rizzo, who has 24 career homers in Cincinnati, has reached base in 17 of his last 18 games. He’s also batting .353 (24-for-68) with six homers and 15 RBI in that span.
“Rizzo has been our rock,” Boone said. “He’s been solid to start the year, a constant, even when we missed Judge for 10 or 11 games.”
In addition to trying to stop Judge and Rizzo, Reds Will be hoping to avoid a fourth straight defeat after striking 25 times in the first two matches of the series. One of those strikeouts was by Jonathan India in the ninth when he fouled a ball with his knee, but he vowed to play on Sunday
“He really doesn’t look too bad,” Cincinnati manager David Bell said of his second baseman. “Not too terrible. The good news is it’s not broken.”
Jake Fraley hit an RBI single and is hitting .355 (22-for-62) with 22 RBIs in his last 21 games.
Reds Hopefully a solid performance from Hunter Green (0-3, 4.60 ERA) can help erase the disappointment of the last two games. Green allowed three earned runs or fewer in his first eight starts before being tagged for six runs and nine hits over four innings with a no-decision at Colorado on Monday.
Green allowed two homers and five in his last three starts after giving up only one homer to Pittsburgh’s O’Neal Cruz in the season opener.
green never faced Yankees And the only New York hitter he ever faced was Harrison Bader
– Field Level Media