Luis Severino had a great first inning and a terrible second inning. He allowed five runs on two hits, two walks, and a hit batsman in 1.2 innings overall. Yuck. His spring ERA will never recover. Starlin Castro and Austin Romine each had a pair of hits while Brian McCann doubled and Mark Teixeira walked. Jorge Mateo clubbed a triple in the ninth to set up the game-winning rally. It looked gone off the bat. (Also, Mateo’s a helmet loser like Eduardo Nunez.) Aaron Judge went 0-for-2 with a strikeout and Dustin Fowler singled. Fowler had the walk-off pop-up and Tyler Wade chugged all the way from first to score. Here’s the box score, here are the video highlights, and here are the day’s notes:
- As usual, Chad Jennings has the day’s workout groups. Bryan Mitchell and James Kaprielian threw bullpens while Masahiro Tanaka and Michael Pineda faced hitters in live batting practice, among others. Good to see Tanaka facing hitters already. Looks like he’s on track to be ready for Opening Day following elbow surgery. The big three relievers will each throw at least one more live batting practice session before appearing in a game. [Brendan Kuty]
- Aroldis Chapman told reporters he no longer owns any guns and admitted his impending free agency was a factor in accepting the 30-game suspension. It could have been longer had he not cooperated. Chapman will stay behind in Florida at the end of Spring Training and the team will map out a plan to make sure he’s game ready the day his suspension ends. [Mark Didtler]
- To the surprise of no one, Brian Cashman confirmed Andrew Miller will “absolutely” close during Chapman’s suspension. Dellin Betances will set him up. Obvious plan is obvious. Joe Girardi also admitted Chasen Shreve has a leg up on one of the open bullpen spots. [Bryan Hoch, Jennings]
- Brett Gardner (wrist) hit in the cage and felt fine. The plan is to keep him out of spring games until March 14th. Shreve (back) will not pitch in tomorrow’s game as scheduled. He’ll throw live batting practice instead. Shreve was hit by a line drive during live batting practice earlier this week. [Hoch, Kuty, Meredith Marakovits]
- Ivan Nova will start tomorrow afternoon’s game against the Phillies. Pretty much all the regular position players who did not play today will play tomorrow. That game will not be broadcast anywhere. No television, no MLB.tv. Lame.
This is tonight’s open thread. This afternoon’s game will re-air on YES at 7pm ET if you missed it earlier, or simply want to watch it again. MLB Network will show the Indians and Reds on tape delay at 9pm ET, if you’re interested. None of the local hockey and basketball teams are in action tonight, but there is a ton of college basketball on schedule. Talk about all of that here.
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