Luis Severino’s final rehab outing was a success, as the righty threw 5 1/3 innings for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Thursday night, allowing two runs on four hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
Severino threw 56 pitches, 40 for strikes, and cruised through four, allowing just a leadoff single to Jarren Duran and a two-out single in the second while striking out five, four of them swinging.
He then allowed a leadoff walk in the fifth, and after he struck out Jaylin Davis, he gave up two consecutive singles, which plated two runs thanks in part to a Ryan LaMarre error. Luke Bard replaced him and hit a batter and threw a wild pitch, but he escaped the second-and-third, one-out jam with back-to-back strikeouts to close Severino’s line.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone mentioned during a media appearance earlier Thursday that if Severino came through his outing and “everything goes well,” he will return to the Yankees Wednesday to start against the Pirates.
Severino should be up to between 70 and 75 pitches for that outing, and the timeline means he will likely have three regular-season starts left. He last pitched for the Yankees on July 13, and is 5-3 with a 3.45 ERA in 86 innings over 16 MLB starts this year.
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