CHICAGO — By using an opener ahead of Luis Severino on Wednesday, the Yankees were hoping to help get the struggling right-hander back on track.
Instead, the plan only delayed the inevitable.
Severino, who began his night in the second inning, quickly put the Yankees in a three-run hole they could not climb out of, and they lost 9-2 to the White Sox to drop the series at Guaranteed Rate Field.
In the short term, Severino lasted just two innings while giving up four runs, which raised his ERA to 8.06 through 14 outings this season.
It remains questionable, at best, whether the Yankees can possibly continue to pitch him as they battle for a playoff spot.
In the bigger picture, the loss capped off a brutal three-game set in which the Yankees (59-56) failed to take advantage of the tanking White Sox (47-69).
They ended the series 5 ½ games back of the Blue Jays for the final AL wild-card spot.
The Yankees had a chance to get Severino off the hook in the seventh inning, when a solo home run from Giancarlo Stanton pulled them within 5-2 before they loaded the bases with no outs.
But they could not score, as Oswaldo Cabrera (in the lineup after DJ LeMahieu was a late scratch with right calf tightness) struck out looking and Kyle Higashioka grounded into a double play.
After Ian Hamilton opened by tossing a quick 10-pitch first inning, the Yankees curiously opted not to extend him into a second inning — even with a day off looming on Thursday — and immediately called on Severino from the bullpen.
Four batters later, they trailed 3-0.
Severino was greeted by Yoan Moncada, who laced a leadoff double to the right-field wall that came off his bat at 97.2 mph.
It had the lowest exit velocity of the five hits that Severino allowed.
One out later, Yasmani Grandal roped a single to left field to put the White Sox up 1-0.
Oscar Colas came up next and clobbered a 2-2 slider from Severino 430 feet to right-center field for a two-run home run and a 3-0 lead.
Severino struck out the next two batters to escape the inning, but his troubles picked back up in the third.
Luis Robert Jr. drilled a one-out single to right field and stole second, putting him in position to score on Moncada’s two-out double to the gap that made it 4-0.
After Severino issued a four-pitch walk to Grandal to begin the bottom of the fourth inning, manager Aaron Boone finally pulled him.
The pending free agent had been frustrated by the decision to not have him start the game, Boone said Wednesday afternoon, but the results of Severino’s first relief appearance of the season were unlikely to make him any happier.
Part of the Yankees’ calculus in using an opener was to take some of the pressure off Severino in the first inning, in which he came in with a 13.85 ERA this season.
Severino still got beat up in his first inning of work, it just happened to come in the second inning of the game.
“I think he’s frustrated by it,” Boone said before the game. “It’s not what he wanted. Obviously he wants to go out there and start. … That’s the competitor in him. Certainly respect that, but also feel like we gotta get him on track too. Hopefully this is something that can be the start of that.”
The White Sox later blew the game open in the eighth inning when they scored four runs against relievers Albert Abreu and Nick Ramirez.
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