Twins knock Luis Severino out after only 0.1 innings in AL Wild Card Game

The New York Yankees saw their budding young ace Luis Severino knocked out after only one out in the Wild Card Game.

In the days leading up to the AL Wild Card Game, MLB Network analyst and big-time sabermetrics guy Brian Kenny was aggressively theorizing that the New York Yankees should treat the game as a bullpen game — essentially turning over all 27 outs to their flame-throwing bullpen.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi did not take the advice and started his young right-handed ace Luis Severino.

Turns out the the Yankees will in fact be having a bullpen game because Severino was knocked out by the Minnesota Twins after getting only one out.

Things started off poorly for Severino after he gave up a leadoff homer to Brian Dozier that just barely cleared the wall in left field. He settled down to get first baseman Joe Mauer to pop out weakly to third base. Then, Jorge Polanco drew a walk before Eddie Rosario absolutely unloaded on a meatball and hit a laser to right field for a two-run home run. Just like that, the Yankees were down 3-0 with only one out.

Severino’s command was obviously off, and he allowed two more hits — a single to Eduardo Escobar and a double to Max Kepler — before Girardi had seen enough. Right-hander Chad Green was summoned and got the final two outs of the inning by striking out Byron Buxton and Jason Castro to keep the score from getting out of hand.

As ugly as things were for the Yankees in the top of the first inning, their fortunes have already been reversed. Brett Gardner and Aaron Judge both reached in front of Didi Gregorius who hit a missile to right field for a three-run bomb. Twins starter Ervin Santana could be out as quickly as Severino in what is shaping up to be a wildly entertaining game.