Yankees takeaways from Friday’s 8-4 loss to Dodgers, including Luis Severino’s nightmare first inning

Luis Severino gave up six first-inning runs as the Yankees fell to the Dodgers, 8-4 in Los Angeles on Friday evening.

Takeaways

– The story of this game modified into as soon as the first inning, which modified into as soon as a nightmare for Severino. He first gave up a leadoff homer to Mookie Betts, and then after getting Freddie Freeman to flooring out, the Dodgers strung collectively six straight hits including a Max Muncy two-dart homer to set up them ahead 4-0. A Miguel Rojas sac soar and a Betts single place LA up 6-0. Jose Trevino picked off James Outman at third unsuitable to mercifully dwell the inning after 34 pitches and eight hits.

Severino would proceed to pitch — giving up a J.D. Martinez solo home dart within the technique — but by hook or by crook bought thru four innings. He gave up nine hits, seven runs, one streak and struck out two. His fastball modified into as soon as slower than his final starts and all the pieces modified into as soon as flat. The broadcast puzzled whether Severino modified into as soon as tipping his pitches on legend of of how onerous his pitches were being hit.

– Future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw had a irascible month of Might per chance also but started off June with a nice outing. Kershaw would whisk seven innings, scattering four hits, one streak and giving up true two runs. He also struck out nine batters. It handiest took the lefty 96 pitches to pass that long on Friday evening.

– The nice story from the Yankees modified into as soon as the returns of Giancarlo Stanton, Josh Donaldson and Tommy Kahnle from the injured checklist. All three would possibly well perchance be interested by this game in various programs.

Donaldson bought the Yankees scoring started with a monster 446-foot homer and Stanton hit a solo home dart of his non-public to lessen the Dodger lead to 7-2. Donaldson would add a two-dart homer within the ninth inning to set up the reduce back the deficit to 8-4. Stanton went 1-for-3 with a streak and two runs. Donaldson accomplished 2-for-4 with the 2 jacks.

Kahnle relieved Severino within the fifth inning, going one inning whereas giving up a streak and a hit. Ryan Weber went two innings but gave up a Betts solo shot whereas Albert Abreu bought a trim inning to spherical out the problem from the Yankees bullpen.

– Gleyber Torres extended his hitting lag to 12 video games with a predominant-inning single whereas Freeman went hitless and broke his 20-game hitting lag.

Anthony Rizzo returned to the lineup after missing the Seattle series. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. Aaron Make a possibility had a tough evening in Hollywood, going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts of his non-public.

Betts’ second homer of the evening gave the Dodgers their eighth dart. It’s the second straight game the Dodger outfielder hit two home runs in one game. He accomplished 4-for-4.

Highlights

What’s Next

The Yankees proceed their three-game series in opposition to the Dodgers on Saturday. First pitch is scheduled for 7:15 p.m..

Gerrit Cole (6-0, 2.93 ERA) shall be on the mound for the Yankees as he goes up in opposition to RHP Michael Grove (0-1, 8.44 ERA).