You could not possibly start a game worse. Luis Severino would finish in the top three of 2017’s Cy Young voting. He was as dominant as any pitcher the Yankees have boasted this century. In a one-game playoff, at home, he was the perfect choice to start the 2017 Wild Card Game.
And he recorded one single out.
Brian Dozier led off the game with a solo home run, and after Joe Mauer popped out, Sevy walked the next batter, giving Eddie Rosario a meatball that made it 3-0. Two more walks meant it was time for then-rookie Chad Green to come in and try and stop the bleeding — which he did, and somehow, the Yankees pulled the whole thing off.