After an encouraging win last night, the Yankees elected to have Luis Severino take another turn in the rotation. Instead of solving his woes, he exacerbated them with a trio of first-inning runs to put New York in an early hole. The pitching staff ultimately surrendered five extra-base hits while the offense failed to do much against Hunter Brown. So it was back to losing ways in a 7-3 victory for Houston.
The large Friday night crowd in the Bronx didn’t have much to cheer about early on. Jose Altuve smacked the first pitch of the night to the left-field wall for a double.