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MLB.com: Severino shut down for 6 weeks with new injury

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HOUSTON—Starter Luis Severino was diagnosed with a Grade 2 lat strain that will prevent him from throwing a ball for six weeks, the team announced prior to Tuesday’s game in Houston.

The injury is separate and independent from the rotator cuff inflammation Severino sustained during Spring Training. The lat strain emerged at some point between the diagnosis of that injury and his ongoing rehab process.

“I don’t know if relief’s the right word, but it’s a little bit like, ‘OK, now we know what it is,’” manager Aaron Boone said after the Yankees’ 6-3 loss to the Astros.