Severino sharp but Yankees fall to Red Sox, 2

UPDATE, 7:38 p.m.: Severino’s already thrown more than 40 pitches, but he just got through the second inning with a strikeout to end it. It’s a 1-0 game.

Next up, Alejandro De Aza made New York pay for the miscue with a well-hit double off the bottom of the right field wall, scoring Napoli to make it 1-0 Boston.

“We don’t leave New York without David probably going deep one time”, Farrell siad.

“A mistake”, Severino said through a translator, echoing Girardi’s assertion that the pitch to Ortiz was supposed to be down and away but tailed over the middle.

New York Yankees Brian McCann watches a sixth-inning RBI double in…

Other than those two blips, it was a pretty successful first start for Severino.

The renewal of the rivalry, Tuesday through Thursday at Yankee Stadium, finds the Red Sox 13 behind the first-place Yankees in the AL East. The Yankees’ run differential is plus 60, the Red Sox, minus 65.

His knuckler was dancing at Yankee Stadium last night. Wright confused the Yankees’ hitters all night long.

Wright understood where his manager was coming from. (Carlos Beltran’s solo home run came in the seventh.) He just knew that he was where he belonged.

“My staff and I all sat down numerous times this winter and again in spring training and mapped out this scenario, and he performed up to his capabilities”, Cashman told the New York Post. Ellsbury safe at first on Bogaerts’s error.

Wright then induced a pop up by Brett Gardner to close the book on the 8th inning and his sensational outing.

Adam Warren tossed three scoreless innings in relief of Severino.

Hanley Ramirez is a career.

The Red Sox are well under.

A clean eighth inning capped a solid three innings by the Yankee righty. New York still could add an arm in a waiver deal, of course, but the quality of available hurlers does not figure to be almost as high as it was in July. Put the side down in order. Swihart singled to center, Napoli scored, De Aza to third. Severino has seven strikeouts and he’s allowed just two hits. He too worked a full count but took a called third strike to deny the Red Sox an insurance run.

It was a welcome to the big leagues and there will be more home run balls thrown in the years to come, but Severino is not known for allowing many, throwing none in a little over 61 innings pitched at Scranton. Shreve got the first two outs before loading the bases. “That’s a good-looking young pitcher”.

– Second baseman Brock Holt went 0-for-4 and left three runners on base.

Koji Uehara retired pinch-hitter Brian McCann with two on in the ninth for his 24th save.

The offense could not muster anything off the Red Sox and their starter Steven Wright with Wright’s knuckleball keeping hitters off balance all night. It was the 21st home run for Ortiz this season and the 487th of his career, pulling him within six of Yankee legend Lou Gehrig and Tom Emanski Defensive Drills legend Fred McGriff for 27th all-time.

-Dustin Pedroia is expected to resume baseball activities this weekend in Detroit.

Owens will replace Rick Porcello, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sore triceps muscle. “There is no target date for the return of OF Mookie Betts (concussion)”, Farrell said….

David Ortiz’s whining aside, you don’t really see the trash talk any more between the teams’ players.