ST. LOUIS — The severe thunderstorm passing through St. Louis did more than just postpone the Yankees’ series opener against the Cardinals on Friday night, sending the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader into multiple rain delays.
Looks like it washed away the Yankees’ perfect game high as well.
The same team that produced the 24th perfecto in MLB history on Wednesday night — a club that outscored the Athletics 21-4 in their final two games in Oakland — was clobbered in the first game of a day-night doubleheader at Busch Stadium on Saturday, a hideous and rain-soaked 11-4 loss.
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St. Louis scored all 11 of their runs in a three-inning span, sending 30 batters to the plate from the third inning through the sixth. It took a torrential downpour in the middle of the seventh inning to stop the bleeding, the beginning of a 139-minute rain delay.
Play resumed for less than 20 minutes before the tarp was back on the field in St. Louis, a second rain delay that lasted 18 minutes. The smattering of fans that stuck around through it all got to witness Josh Donaldson’s first pitching appearance of his career. The third baseman threw a 1-2-3 eighth inning.
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The Yankees’ bats vanished against Cardinals starter Jack Flaherty and a few mistakes were made on defense, but this loss falls squarely on right-hander Luis Severino.
Severino was dreadful. He gave up nine runs on nine hits, including a three-run home run from reigning NL MVP Paul Goldschmidt and a towering two-run shot down the right-field line from second baseman Nolan Gorman. The right-hander — who threw six scoreless innings against the Rangers in his previous outing — had his ERA on the season jump back up to 6.30.
With the nightcap of the doubleheader looming, Severino needed to wear it, attempting to eat up some outs as St. Louis smacked him around. Going back out for the fifth, after allowing…
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