Yankees starting pitcher Luis Severino allowed six earned runs in more than three sets.(Photo: Adam Hunger, USA TODAY Sports)

NEW YORK – What a mess.

The New York Yankees played in Game 3 of the AHL Division Series after winning a convincing victory in the second game. They now have the advantage of home ground in their favor and their best pitcher starting on the mound.

They He came off a 16-1 defeat to the Boston Red Sox. His director, usually very strong, seems to be beaten and besieged. Its director is mired in communication and decision-making issues. an ALCS berth in their home park Tuesday.

It was ugly. The football score is ugly. Most unbalanced post-season losses in franchise history are ugly. Backup-catcher-pitching-in-a-play-play-game-ugly.

According to the TBS show, the Yankees made a bad start even before the start of the match. During the television broadcast, analyst Ron Darling reported that starter Luis Severino was confused or misinformed about the game at 19:40. ET's scheduled departure time did not arrive at the Yankees counter to start warming less than 10 minutes before the first pitch. After the match, Severino, coach Aaron Boone, catcher Gary Sanchez and pitcher Larry Rothschild all denied the report, insisting that Severino had followed his usual routine before. -match.

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"It was not a problem," Boone said. "He had a lot of warm up. He did what he intended to do there and did, and (Rothschild) said that he was able to perform his routine usual, where he has to face some hitters and all. "

"I arrived (on the field) 20 minutes before the match, as I always do," Severino said. "Such a big game is your game. You have to remember what time it is. There was no confusion with the timing. "

If Severino had finished his usual warm-up routine, he would not reach his usual effect. The 24-year-old right-hander allowed two well-hit balls to find gloves and go around a two-ball drive to escape the first, but things began to collapse soon after.

The Red Sox rallied for a run in the second after Rafael Devers opened the inning with a right-field line that left his stick at 116 mph and reached the wall so quickly that Devers was held to a singles. Severino has allowed seven balls hit by more than 100 mph in the game, his highest total of the season. Four of these rockets arrived in the third inning only, when the Red Sox scored two more points on three singles and a sacrificial fly.

"The fastball order was not there," said Severino. "When you do not order your orders against a range like this, you have problems."

Despite the warning signs, the Yankees left Severino for the quarterback.

"It was the bottom of the agenda and it's the guy who has launched well for us all year," explained Rothschild.

Strikers # 7 and # 8 from Sox, Brock Holt and Christian Vazquez, opened the heat with back-to-back singles. Believing, for whatever reason, that Attacker Number 9, Jackie Bradley Jr. would attempt a sacrificial offering – something that he has not been able to do since 2015 – in the absence of outs and two runners in the fourth inning, Boone kept Severino in the game. .

"Once these two guys arrived and the situation became difficult, we would just go up (Severino) through this place."

Severino was walking towards Bradley and Boone – with a complete stable of armed combat soldiers in his pen – called Lance Lynn to face Mookie Betts' probable MVP AL, with no outs and loaded bases. Lynn, starting in the overwhelming majority of her career appearances and unaccustomed to playing games with riders on base, led Betts on four courts, then gave Andrew Benintendi a double.

"Certainly, in hindsight, we should have started the fourth inning with (David Robertson) or something like that," said Boone, "but we really felt that (Severino) could at least get us out a couple of games in the fourth inning before returning it to Lynn, then we would deploy our guys.We just could not stop the bleeding.It was the thought behind that.

"The match we wanted was Lynn from the top (in the order of the Red Sox batter) against the right handed ones."

To Boone's credit, Lynn defended well against the right-handed hitterers in the regular season, setting them up 0.64. But Robertson, Dellin Betances and Chad Green – who were all available, and who are all full time relief throwers – all had even better results in the division.

"We feel like Lance, in many ways, against right-handed people gives us our best chance," said Boone. "He really did not get it tonight, but when it comes to things, it's because he's in the place and that's where it's for that part of the training. He has just come into conflict with his command. Then the sleeve has just escaped.

"Go away" is a euphemism. By the end of round four, Lynn had gone in favor of Green and seven rounds of the Red Sox had broken through. The Sox would score another point in seventh place, three in the eighth and two in second place, Austin Romine, in the ninth.

"Unfortunately, I had to participate in this game," said Romine. "I would not do too much. The big story is, we did not do the work. "

The game became so uncontrollable so fast and so convincing that Boone was able to spare Robertson, Betances and closest Aroldis Chapman. But that may be the problem: if the Yankees' office is one of its greatest strengths, why was it not appealing to its best members when they could have kept the game at your fingertips?

"The good thing about today is a match, and as horrible as it has been for us, we have to turn the page," said Boone. "(Tuesday), obviously, it's do or die."

The dismal and disconcerting performance of the Yanks on Monday makes it possible to consider only one of these results.

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