ARLINGTON, Texas — Luis Severino arrived in the big leagues late last season with off-the-charts hype. Because he was mature beyond his years and had an electric arm, the Yankees felt he would hold up to the heat of a pennant race.
He went out and honored those proclamations, and in his 11 starts he demonstrated the kind of stuff that had them dreaming of a soon-to-be ace. But the 22-year-old’s first three starts this season were erratic at best and his fourth, Tuesday night, was nothing short of a train wreck.
Throwing fastballs almost exclusively to one of the AL’s best fastball-hitting teams, Severino (0-3, 6.