Atop the Yankee Stadium center-field scoreboard are the words “EXIT VELO,” and after each struck ball a reading in mphs registers — a bit of modernity to entertain fans, but certainly a service to a manager, too.
But really you didn’t need a complex laser system to recognize that Luis Severino was being hit hard — literally from the first pitch. Just working eyes.
Yet, at a time when urgency is the mandate, Aaron Boone ignored the triple-digit consistency that was being shown on the scoreboard and in his view — and, really, also that the calendar now reads October.