Luis Severino shredded in long-awaited Yankee Stadium return as pitch-tipping concerns reemerge

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.Luis Severino’s return to Yankee Stadium — more than a season in the making — would’ve been a spectacle even without the added context. Even without his name swirling in trade rumors.

Even without Severino comparing games at Sutter Health Park, the minor league stadium in West Sacramento, Calif., hosting the Athletics until they complete their Las Vegas move, to “spring training” and ripping it as a listless place to pitch.Even without his postgame admission Sunday that he spent a recent bullpen session trying to figure out if he was tipping pitches — an issue the Yankees spent years trying to fix. All of that collided during Severino’s dud in The Bronx, where he failed to make it out of the fourth inning during the Yankees’ 12-5 win, surrendered seven runs — six earned — and struggled with command (three walks, two hit batters).

Neither Severino nor A’s manager Mark Kotsay thought pitch-tipping played a role, and Severino didn’t regret being “honest” with his thoughts about the A’s ballpark.He can’t control if he gets traded before the July 31 deadline, but he acknowledged that this is “not the year I was planning.” “I mean, if they trade me or not, I’m gonna keep grinding, trying to be my best self,” Severino, who pitched for the Yankees from 2015-23, said.

“… I can do nothing about if they get mad [at the ballpark comments] or not.I just say what it is, you know.

I’m not gonna go out there — if you ask me how I feel pitching at home, I’m not gonna lie to you.Because at the end, you guys are gonna figure out if it’s a lie or not.

… I was not trying to, I mean, hurt nobody’s feelings by saying that, but I think I’m not the only one who feels the same way.” Severino saw “little things” from his prior start that didn’t categorically suggest tipping, ...