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.”
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