Lauded as the team's top starter by manager Joe Girardi, Severino logged his fourth consecutive quality start, limiting Cincinnati to three hits and two walks over a nine-strikeout performance. A Gregorius error preceded a pair of unearned runs in the seventh, snapping Severino's streak of 17 scoreless innings.
Clint Frazier notched the fourth multi-RBI game of his brief big league career with a pair of run-scoring singles off Reds starter Homer Bailey, who permitted seven runs (five earned) on 10 hits over six-plus innings while dropping his third straight start.
Adam Duvall trimmed the large deficit with a three-run homer off Luis Cessa in the eighth.