BOSTON — Luis Severino pitched better Friday night than he had recently, but it wasn’t good enough to keep the Yankees from matching their longest losing streak of a season on the brink of becoming a chase for the AL wild card instead of the AL East title.
After buzzing Mookie Betts with a high-octane fastball up and in with his first pitch — resulting in each team being warned — Severino gave up three runs in the home first to put the Yankees in a shallow grave they couldn’t dig out of against Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello, who gave up one hit — Miguel Andujar’s homer — in a complete-game effort.