Yankees keep making Luis Severino’s ‘two good hitters’ jab seem spot on
NY Post
If there had been a month of monsoons, the 1948 Boston Braves just might have been able to get by after all with just [Warren] Spahn and [Johnny] Sain in the rotation.
But it could rain for 40 days and 40 nights and the other seven batters in the Yankees order not named Aaron Judge and Juan Soto will still have to take their turns at the plate.
It is the quiet stuff folks say out loud that always cuts the deepest. It is the grain of truth in every joke that always strikes home with cruelty.
We’re talking here about the Yankees’ shallow two-man batting order following Sunday’s symptomatic 6-4 defeat to the Rays in The Bronx.
But we are surely also talking about what Luis Severino said about his former team’s offensive capabilities at the end of last week when it became known that the Mets right-hander would miss this week’s two-game installment of the Subway Series as he had missed the opening two-game salvo in Queens the final week of June.
He said he’d been kind of joking when teased in a group chat by his former teammates, said he didn’t really mean it when he said, “I’m not afraid of those guys … right now, you only have two good hitters.”
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.