We are well past the point of reason. The Yankees keep falling, keep getting back up and keep falling back down again. That’s the way it happened with Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez. With Luke Voit and Aaron Hicks. With CC Sabathia and Edwin Encarnacion.
And that’s the way it happened with Luis Severino and Dellin Betances. Except that — and at first telling, this sounds like the kind of mean-spirited joke that can get people banned from social media — it happened yet again to Betances during his 2019 debut on Sunday in Toronto, in which the relief pitcher pitched to two batters, struck out two batters — and somehow suffered a partial tear of his Achilles tendon doing a little jig of celebration upon fanning Brandon Drury.