Yankees rough up Luis Severino in lopsided win over Athletics

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — These were not the Yankees Luis Severino remembered.

An offense so home run-dependent for so many years of Severino’s time in pinstripes looked far different while facing Severino for the first time.

The Yankees more blistered than bombed Severino, who watched hard-hit ground balls find holes and lined shots to the outfield find grass, which enabled the Yankees to frequently flex speed they did not used to have.

And then as if to demonstrate the bats can still score the old way, too, Ben Rice added a grand slam to help turn the series finale into a laugher.

The Yankees demolished the A’s 12-2 in front of another sellout crowd of 12,224 at Sutter Health Park on a happy Mother’s Day Sunday.

Aaron Boone’s bunch (23-17) has won four of five largely behind an attack that will miss the sometimes sweltering heat and fickle wind of a minor league ballpark, the club scoring 29 runs in the three-game set.

But against Severino — a popular, homegrown Yankee who emerged as an ace before injuries began to strike and last year had to bounce back with the Mets — that offense took a different form.

During a five-run second inning, the only extra-base hit was a well-placed, gapped double from Paul Goldschmidt. Otherwise, it was walks (to Jasson Domínguez and Oswaldo Cabrera), singles (from Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells and Aaron Judge) and RBI groundouts (from Jorbit Vivas) that pestered Severino.

It was the speed that stood out an inning later, when Domínguez reached on a single and then blazed his way around the bases on a double from Oswaldo Cabrera, Domínguez running through a stop sign from third base coach Luis Rojas and sneaking his left hand on the plate before the tag to score a sixth run.

The pressure remained in the fifth, when the Yankees ran a rare hit-and-run to perfection: Domínguez took off for second, prompting A’s shortstop Jacob Wilson to leave the hole to cover the base as Volpe ground a single into the area Wilson had just abandoned.

Severino was then pulled, and the Yankees showed off some of their old-school might against former Yankees prospect Mitch Spence. With the bases loaded and two outs, Rice demolished a no-doubt grand slam — the first of his career — down the right field line, a swing that made the final innings elementary.

The Yankees offense finished with 15 hits, every starter except Vivas (who contributed in other ways) recording at least one knock. Judge sprayed hits everywhere on a 4-for-5 day that raised his average to .409. His only extra-base hit: a hustle double. Goldschmidt used three doubles to bounce his average back up to .349.

Ryan Yarbrough was not asked for much and overdelivered.

The lefty, filling in after Carlos Carrasco was bumped from the major league team, went a season-high five innings in which he let up two runs on six hits and two walks.

Yarbrough struck out just two and maxed out at 90.1 mph, but his funk and pitch mix frustrated the A’s.

Yerry De Los Santos covered three scoreless innings before Tyler Matzek recorded the final three outs for the Yankees, who will have a rested bullpen in Seattle and an offense that will dearly miss Sacramento.