One Luis Severino mistake ‘messed everything up’ when things first went wrong for Mets
The Mets’ lone Gold Glove finalist was betrayed by his defensಌe Wednesday night.
Luis Severino didn’t give up much hard contac✱t in G💧ame 3.
Instead, the two runs he allowed across 4 ²/₃ innings were partly due to the pitcher not fielding his𒈔 position as well as usual.
“I feel like my glove messed everything up in that inning there,” Severino said after the Mets’ 8-0 Game 3 loss at Citi Field.
The Mets never really recovered after Severino allowed thos🅺e two unearned runs in the second inning.
They weren’t completely Severino’s fault.
He did 💫walk Max Muncy leading off the frame, but Francisco Alvarez’s throwing error on a Teoscar Hernandez dribbler loomed large.
Severino couldn’t field a Gavin Lux comebacker cleanly, costing him a chance at a double play, and Will Smith singled ofඣf Severino, allowing the gaꦫme’s first run to score.
“That was not good. I should’ve caught those,” Severino said. “One should’ve bee✨n an easy double play. Other one I should’ve stopped th🦩e guy going to home plate. Made a couple of mistakes there.”
The right-hander was fortunate that Tommy Edman’s sacrifice fly 🎉was tracked down in right-center field by Tyrꦡone Taylor, or it could’ve been worse that inning.
But the damage was done.
Overall, Severino’s performance 🐎was passable, limiting Los A🎃ngeles’ powerhouse lineup to three hits and those two runs.
While he didn’t g🌠ive the Mets length, Severino at least limited the damage.
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He got out of a bases-𝔉loaded, one-out situation in the third by retiring Hernandez and Lux, worked a perfect fourth, and came out in the fifth wit♚h two on and two out.
That has been Severino’s postseason — not disꦺastrous, but not overly eff🌜ective.
He entered with a 4.50 ERA, having allowed six ER in 12 innings pitched, and he wasn’t much better 🦩on Wednesday night.
Severino was frequently behind hitters, put the Mets in an early hole and forced the bullp꧒en to get 13 outs.
It didn’t♈ help matters that Reed Garrett served up a t𒐪wo-run homer to Kiké Hernandez in the sixth that put the game away.
The൩ lone positive was that Garrett 😼was the only high-leverage reliever that was used.
With huge games coming up on Thursday and Friday, thꦍat was signi༺ficant.
