Perhaps the most important lesson Luis Severino learned Saturday covered not baseball, but Disney World: It’s vast and confusing, and weekend traffic is a doozy.
The Yankees’ Opening Day starter reported to Champion Stadium about 11:45 Saturday morning, considerably later than expected for a 1:07 first pitch, though he stayed in the area Friday night. The Yankees could shrug it off given the circumstances, and it helped the right-hander that he proceeded to clock a solid five innings in the Yankees’ split-squad, 8-3 victory over the Braves.
“I guess he went to the wrong place [on Disney grounds],” Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild said.