Sevy’s strong return lifts Yanks to Cincy sweep

CINCINNATI — Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone harped on his gamers to take the sequence together with his former membership, the Reds, critically. They did, sweeping Cincinnati in three video games.

The Yankees accomplished the sweep with a 4-1 victory Sunday afternoon earlier than a crowd of 33,828 at Great American Ball Park. It was the fourth win in a row for New York, sixth within the final seven video games and eleventh within the final 14 video games.

With Aaron Judge out of the lineup for a scheduled off-day, Harrison Bader and Gleyber Torres supplied the facility with dwelling runs.

Right-hander Luis Severino was spectacular in his season debut as he returned from a proper lat harm suffered in Spring Training. He went 4 2/3 innings and allowed one run on 4 hits, strolling one and putting out 5. Severino reached his 75-pitch restrict an out in need of qualifying for a win.

Reds starter Hunter Greene confronted the minimal 12 batters via 4 innings, due to a double play and a caught stealing.

But Willie Calhoun led off the fifth with a stroll. Four pitches later, Bader hit a 108.4 mph, 411-foot bolt for his fourth dwelling run to offer the Yankees a 2-1 lead. Torres pushed the result in 3-1 within the sixth with a shot to proper for his seventh dwelling run of the yr.

Boone was ejected within the first inning for arguing after a good/foul name was overturned, awarding Spencer Steer a double. Jonathan India scored on the play, giving the Reds a 1-0 lead. Right fielder Jake Bauers had the ball go off his glove whereas he was nonetheless in honest territory.

It was Boone’s third ejection of the season and the twenty ninth of his managerial profession.