It was not the role of playoffs envisioned by Yankees Catcher.

That was not the way the Yankees wanted Austin Romine to play in a playoff game.

Their 16-1 loss to the Red Sox in ALDS 'third game on Monday was so bad that coach Josh Bard approached the substitute receiver in the half-run in the eighth. handle and asked him if he could throw.

"I said I was sure to try in hell," said Romine, who had not played since arriving at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California.

After Luis Severino did not record a fourth-quarter lead, Lance Lynn was a disaster and Chad Green was not much better. Jonathan Holder made two honest runs before rookie southpaw Stephen Tarpley scored a brutal eighth and barely survived.

So there was Romine, for the first time in her professional career, in front of a few thousand cold, wet fans who had watched the Yankees' parades embarrass them in the Bronx with the worst defeat in MLB history.

While the Yankees lost 13 points in the ninth inning, Aaron Boone went to get the substitute, and Romine was applauded by the few thousand unfortunates left at the stadium.

"Just try to miss the plate," Romine said of her approach to the mound. "Just try to get out of this round and save the guys left in the pen."

Romine only started fastballs, as he called them: "Some slow down, others more … I would like to have fun with that, but really, I was just trying to get out of the handle."

He finally did.

Romine managed to convince Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers to start the heat, but then walked Ian Kinsler.

That brought Brock Holt, who needed a homerun to become the first player to finish the playoff round, and the second-baseman gave Romine the lead to sit in the straight for the first time. final rounds of the match.

"We came here to win the match," said Romine. "Of course, that did not happen. I'm sure I'll think about it and have fun, but I was trying to finish the round. "

Christian Vazquez flew right to end the run.

"I never imagined participating in these series in this role," said Romine, the first Yankees to take the mound since Brendan Ryan in 2015 against Houston. "But I'm here to try to help guys."

Romine also became the second player to play in a playoff game – following Cliff Pennington of Toronto, who scored a third of a set in a loss to Kansas City in Game 4 of the ALCS 2015 – but he wanted to focus on the game.

"The big story is that we did not do the work when it was necessary to do it," said Romine. "And unfortunately, I had to throw."