If last night’s game was over as quickly as it began, tonight’s seems like a foregone conclusion. After baseball’s best team, the Braves, trounced the Yankees 11-3 (going up 8-2 after just three innings), there’s little reason to suspect a different outcome in this contest ... especially with Luis Severino on the bump.
The impending free agent has allowed more than a run per inning in each of his last three outings and in five of his last seven. In each of those seven, he’s yielded at least one homer. On the season, he ranks third-worst with 2.