New York Yankees right-hander Luis Severino has a high-grade left oblique strain and will miss the rest of the season, the team announced Saturday night.

He was placed on the 15-day injured list earlier in the day, a move that could end his career in pinstripes.

In a corresponding transaction, the Yankees recalled right-hander Ron Marinaccio from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He is 4-5 with a 4.08 ERA in 44 relief appearances this season.

The oft-injured Severino exited Friday night’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers after allowing a single to Brice Turang to start the fifth inning. He appeared fine physically in the first four innings, as he gave up two runs on four hits and a walk with five strikeouts. But after facing Turang, he grabbed his left side in obvious pain.

“I feel like somebody shot me,” Severino said after the game. “It’s just like a deep, sharp pain.”

Severino made his season debut in mid-May after recovery from a lat strain that had sidelined him since spring training, an injury that also plagued him last season.

After All-Star seasons in 2017 and ‘18, the Yankees signed Severino to a four-year, $40 million contract extension. He now is in the fifth, team option year of that deal, paying him $15 million this season.

Since his combined 33-14 record and 3.18 ERA in 2017-18, Severino is 13-12 with a 4.47 ERA in 45 games. That includes this season’s mark of 4-8 with a 6.65 ERA in 19 appearances (18 starts).

In his eighth season, all with the Yankees, Severino, 29, is 54-37 with a 3.79 ERA in 141 games (125 starts).

Severino missed most of the 2019 season with a lat strain and all of 2020 due to Tommy John surgery. He also has had problems with his groin and shoulder.

Whether the Yankees re-sign him this winter is anyone’s guess.

“There’s a lot at stake for him,” manager Aaron Boone said Friday. “He’s been through a lot over these last several years (with) injuries, and when he has pitched, he’s pitched really well. This year, when he came back, he really had an extended struggle when he’s been healthy for the first time in his career.”

–Field Level Media

The Kansas City Royals on Saturday activated Brad Keller from the 60-day injured list after the right-hander recovered from a right shoulder impingement.

The Royals also placed rookie catcher Freddy Fermin on the 10-day IL because of a left middle finger fracture; placed rookie left-hander Austin Cox (left knee) on the 60-day IL; and selected the contract of catcher/outfielder Tyler Cropley from Double-A Northwest Arkansas.

Keller last pitched for the Royals on May 15, allowing three hits, eight walks and three runs (two earned) in a 4-0 loss at the San Diego Padres. He went on the 15-day IL and was transferred to the 60-day IL on Aug. 16. This season, he is 3-4 with a 4.36 ERA, 40 walks and 31 strikeouts in 43 1/3 innings over nine starts.

“It’s been a trying year for (Keller),” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “But as of late, the last three weeks or so, he’s really thrown the ball well on his rehab assignment.”

Keller, 28, is an impending free agent who has played for Kansas City his entire MLB career since 2018. He is 38-53 with a 4.25 ERA, 298 walks and 506 strikeouts in 677 innings over 148 games (114 starts).

Fermin injured his hand when his glove was clipped by Toronto’s George Springer on a catcher’s interference play in the eighth inning of the host Blue Jays’ 5-4 victory on Friday.

Fermin, 28, is batting .281 with nine home runs and 32 RBIs in 217 at-bats over 70 games.

Cox also was injured in Friday’s game while running to cover first base on Alejandro Kirk’s grounder in the seventh inning. Cox’s left knee buckled as he went to catch the throw from first baseman Salvador Perez. He was helped off the field and did not return, with his season now over.

Cox, 26, who made his major league debut in May, is 0-1 with a 4.79 ERA, 17 walks and 33 strikeouts in 35 2/3 innings over 24 games (three starts).

Cropley, 27, batted .235 with a .329 on-base percentage, .359 slugging percentage, four home runs and 17 RBIs in 145 at-bats over 43 games at Double-A.

“(Cropley) does a great job behind the plate receiving and blocking,” Quatraro said. “This will shift (first baseman Perez) back there more.”

–Field Level Media

The Atlanta Braves on Saturday recalled rookie left-hander Dylan Dodd from Triple-A Gwinnett and optioned right-hander Ben Heller to Triple-A.

Dodd, 25, is 2-1 with a 7.40 ERA, eight walks and 12 strikeouts in 24 1/3 innings over five games (all starts) for Atlanta after making his major league debut in April.

The Braves selected Dodd in the third round of the 2021 MLB June Amateur Draft out of Southeast Missouri State.

Heller, 32, pitched one scoreless, hitless inning on Friday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Braves’ 8-2 home victory.

In 19 appearances for the Braves this season, Heller has a 3.86 ERA with 11 walks and 16 strikeouts in 18 2/3 innings over 19 appearances. Atlanta acquired him in a June 6 trade with the Tampa Bay Rays for future considerations.

–Field Level Media