Right-hander Luis Severino exited the Athletics’ Friday game against the New York Yankees in West Sacramento, Calif., due to right arm soreness, and he will undergo tests on Saturday.

Severino, 32, was warming up for the start of the second inning when he suddenly walked to the back of the mound and looked toward the dugout, prompting catcher Shea Langeliers to signal to the dugout. Severino left the game following a brief discussion with a trainer and manager Mark Kotsay.

He was replaced by left-hander Jose Suarez.

After the Athletics’ 8-2 loss, Severino said he had felt shoulder tightness since facing the Los Angeles Angels on May 21, when he struck out a season-high 10 without issuing a walk in seven innings.

“I felt something during my start against the Angels, but this time it got worse with every pitch I threw,” Severino said.

Asked if he might miss next scheduled start, Severino replied, “The biggest (worry) is finding something that keeps me out a long time. We’ll see what the tests say. If the worst-case scenario is I miss one or two starts, I’m happy with that.”

Severino was initially scheduled to start against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday, but his start was pushed back. The initial reasoning was that the A’s wanted left-handers to start against the Mariners.

Kotsay said after the Friday game, “On Tuesday when he threw his side (session). I was there for it, everything looked great and he said felt good. Wednesday felt good.

“Obviously, when you ramp it up and you go into competition, you just don’t know how it’s going to respond. After the first inning, when he went out to warm up, he felt like it was still tight and couldn’t get loose and we made a decision to shut him down.”

Severino gave up four runs — all unearned — in the first inning due to a throwing error by first baseman Nick Kurtz. Aaron Judge had an RBI single, and Paul Goldschmidt drilled a three-run homer. New York led the rest of the way, so Severino was tagged with the loss.

Severino pitched for the Yankees from 2015-23, and the right-hander had been treated rudely by his former teammates entering Friday, compiling an 0-2 record and a 10.66 ERA in three starts. He is in his second season with the Athletics after spending 2024 with the New York Mets.

Through 12 starts this year, Severino is 2-6 with a 4.16 ERA.

–Field Level Media

LEBANON, Tenn. — Layne Riggs set the pace early in the rain-delayed NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway on Friday, then rallied for a dramatic final-lap pass to claim the track’s iconic “Victory Guitar” trophy in the Allegiance 200.

Riggs, who started sixth on the event’s eighth and final restart with 16 laps to go, passed the defending race winner Rajah Caruth coming off Turn 4 on the next-to-last lap. Riggs got a strong push forward from teammate Chandler Smith to hold the top position and take his second consecutive win, and third of the season, in the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford.

After leading all of the opening 90 laps and claiming victories in both Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the race, Riggs restarted the final stage from the fifth row, losing positions after the competition’s varying pit strategies. His move forward afterward, however, was an exhilarating ending to a long night.

Ultimately the 23-year North Carolina native and second-generation NASCAR driver took the checkered flag by 0.468 seconds over Caruth, who drove the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. Caruth’s car originally was intended to be raced by NASCAR champion driver Kyle Busch, who died at the age of 41 from sepsis last week.

It was an emotional win for Riggs, who dedicated the victory to Busch and an equally emotional outing for Caruth, who honored Busch with his own outstanding run toward the trophy.

Riggs was energized by his triumph at a track where his father, Scott Riggs, won the series’ inaugural truck race back in 2001 and two other NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series races (2002 and ’03).

“Not till I passed him and cleared him,” Riggs said of feeling confident in his dramatic comeback. “That’s how you win a NASCAR truck race there, boys and girls. I hope I put on a show for you. I didn’t want to fall back, but I don’t know what happened with that set of tires. It was literally undriveable.

“(Crew chief) Dylan (Capello) made the right adjustments there, got me the tires, got me the motivation and (I) drove to the front,” he said of a late-race pit-stop gamble for an adjustment and new tires with 32 laps remaining.

“So proud of the awesome finish there with the 38 truck (Smith), he gave me the push for the win and good racing there with Chandler tonight,” he added of his teammate, who finished third.

Caruth, who led 44 laps, looked to become only the second driver in history to earn back-to-back wins on the 1.33-mile Nashville oval. The talented and well-liked young driver had the emotional support of millions of NASCAR fans who would have loved to see Busch’s truck return to victory lane.

“I was trying to make this thing as wide as possible,” Caruth said of attempting to hold off Riggs, whose car was on fresher tires. “But that was a great call by Brian. We were strong but starting at the back because of qualifying (being rained out) kind of impacted our night. We got the car really strong there and probably some things I could have done better.

“Glad to give these guys a good result. … Really wanted to get that one obviously for everybody that was at KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports), especially KB’s family. Close. I just didn’t close it out.”

“Wanted to get a trophy tonight. So close. But proud of the effort and the team.”

NASCAR Cup Series regular Ross Chastain finished fourth in the Niece Motorsports Chevrolet, and he was followed by Tyler Ankrum in the No. 18 McAnally-Hilgemann Chevy.

Stewart Friesen, Grant Enfinger, 2024 Nashville winner Christian Eckes, Gio Ruggiero and Daniel Dye rounded out the top 10.

Riggs, with his victory and a rare laps-down finish for Tricon Garage’s Kaden Honeycutt, took over the championship lead by 37 points over Honeycutt.

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series returns to action on June 6 at the Michigan International Speedway 2-mile oval with the DQS Solutions & Staffing 250 (1:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Friesen is the defending race winner.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Race — Allegiance 200

Nashville Superspeedway

Friday, May 29, 2026

1. (1) Layne Riggs, Ford, 150.

2. (25) Rajah Caruth(i), Chevrolet, 150.

3. (22) Chandler Smith, Ford, 150.

4. (21) Ross Chastain(i), Chevrolet, 150.

5. (17) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 150.

6. (24) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 150.

7. (16) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, 150.

8. (5) Christian Eckes, Chevrolet, 150.

9. (4) Giovanni Ruggiero, Toyota, 150.

10. (36) Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, 150.

11. (18) Parker Retzlaff(i), Toyota, 150.

12. (27) Ty Majeski, Ford, 150.

13. (7) Brandon Jones(i), Toyota, 150.

14. (19) Andres Perez De Lara, Chevrolet, 150.

15. (10) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 150.

16. (29) Cole Butcher #, Ford, 150.

17. (23) Dawson Sutton, Chevrolet, 150.

18. (13) Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 150.

19. (30) Brenden Queen #, RAM, 150.

20. (33) Mini Tyrrell #, RAM, 150.

21. (31) Derek Lemke, Ford, 150.

22. (12) Corey LaJoie, RAM, 149.

23. (32) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, 149.

24. (26) Frankie Muniz, Ford, 149.

25. (35) Caleb Costner, Chevrolet, 148.

26. (28) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 148.

27. (2) Kaden Honeycutt, Toyota, 147.

28. (6) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 145.

29. (34) Clayton Green, Ford, 141.

30. (8) William Sawalich(i), Toyota, 120.

31. (15) Justin Haley, RAM, Suspension, 108.

32. (11) Jake Garcia, Ford, Accident, 75.

33. (9) Tanner Gray, Toyota, Accident, 72.

34. (3) Jesse Love(i), Chevrolet, Accident, 70.

35. (20) Carson Ferguson, RAM, Accident, 59.

36. (14) Tyler Reif, Chevrolet, Accident, 55.

Average Speed of Race Winner: 99.958 mph.

Time of Race: 1 Hrs, 59 Mins, 45 Secs. Margin of Victory: 0.468 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 8 for 48 laps.

Lead Changes: 5 among 3 drivers.

Lap Leaders: L. Riggs 1-98;R. Chastain(i) 99-104;R. Caruth(i) 105-133;R. Chastain(i) 134;R. Caruth(i) 135-149;L. Riggs 150.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Layne Riggs 2 times for 99 laps; Rajah Caruth(i) 2 times for 44 laps; Ross Chastain(i) 2 times for 7 laps.

Stage #1 Top Ten: 34,11,77,91,17,38,99,15,98,19

Stage #2 Top Ten: 34,11,38,91,9,99,20,88,19,45

–By Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service. Special to Field Level Media.

White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami, removed in the third inning of Chicago’s game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday after tweaking his right hamstring, will undergo imaging on Saturday.

The 26-year-old rookie, who shares the American League homer lead with Houston’s Yordan Alvarez, each with 20, grabbed at his hamstring after hustling down the first base line to avoid a 4-6-3 double play.

Murakami walked slowly back to the dugout without needing assistance.

After the White Sox’s 4-3, 10-inning win, Chicago manager Will Venable said, “Looks like a little hamstring strain on the initial evaluation. He’ll get some imaging tomorrow, but probably a couple weeks (on the injured list is the expectation). Nothing official, got to continue the evaluation. But it might be a couple weeks.”

Luisangel Acuna ran for Murakami and scored on Miguel Vargas’ double. In the top of the fourth, Vargas moved from third to first, Acuna took over at short and Colson Montgomery slid from short to third. Montgomery stayed in the game despite tweaking his lower back while popping out to close the third inning.

Murakami has been a revelation for a White Sox squad that sits in second place in the American League Central. The first baseman has appeared in all 57 games and delivered a .240/.378/.560 slash line with 41 RBIs and 44 walks.

–Field Level Media