This night went sideways in so many ways for the Yankees, too many to enumerate in this tidy little Post column.
Yet Exhibit A might just be the oddity of Luis Severino’s news conference after his team suffered a historic 16-1 beating at the hands of the Red Sox in American League Division Series Game 3.
As many questions as Severino faced about his lousy pitching Monday night, he received just as many about … his pregame preparation?
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Or maybe not. Perhaps Severino got knocked around for reasons other than when he began warming up, and for sure Aaron Boone deserves the primary blame for not pulling his All-Star sooner than he did, the rookie manager’s tentativeness putting the Yankees in a 2-1 hole in this best-of-five battle.