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Severino uses reliever’s mentality to stifle Mets
- Updated: August 4, 2016
NEW YORK — Strategizing with the type of paradoxical logic that could only be useful on a pitcher’s mound, Luis Severino came to realize Wednesday that in order to prove he can be a starter, he had to start thinking like a reliever.
Severino entered Wednesday’s 9-5 Yankees win over the Mets in the fourth inning with a three-run lead and two outs. Starter Chad Green left Severino two men on base and exited just in time for the youngster to face off against Yoenis Cespedes, the Mets’ most powerful and most productive hitter.
There’s a certain strategy involved with coming in to face your first hitter of the game. And Severino is used to thinking as a starter. After all, he’s made 18 starts this season between Triple-A and the big leagues. So his starter’s instincts told him to pepper Cespedes with fastballs. But then he changed his mind. He isn’t a starter at the moment. It was time to stop thinking like one.
“I know that they think I’m a starter. They think I’m going to throw [over] the middle,” Severino said of his opponents. “So I had to think like a reliever and throw him a breaking ball.”
The 22-year-old used his slider to his advantage, …
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