This was not the way the Yankees wanted to get Austin Romine into a postseason game.
Their 16-1 loss to the Red Sox in Game 3 of the ALDS on Monday got so out of hand, bench coach Josh Bard approached the backup catcher in the dugout in the eighth inning and asked him if he could pitch.
“I said I’d sure as hell try,” said Romine, who hadn’t pitched since he played at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
After Luis Severino didn’t record an out in the fourth, Lance Lynn was a disaster and Chad Green wasn’t much better.