New York — No. 9 hitter Tyrone Taylor hit a go-ahead homer as Christian Yelich's fill-in to start a three-run eighth inning that sparked the Milwaukee Brewers to a 9-2 victory Saturday after the New York Yankees celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 1998 championship team.

With the score 2-2, Taylor hit a 1-0 sinker off Jonathan Loáisiga (0-2) down the left field line for his sixth homer. Taylor was inserted into Milwaukee's lineup when Yelich was scratched due to lower back soreness about 10 minutes the scheduled start of a game delayed by rain at the start by 2 hours, 34 minutes.

Milwaukee (79-62) opened a four-game NL Central lead over the second-place Chicago Cubs.

New York had four hits and managed just seven in the first two games of the series, getting outscored 13-0 from the seventh inning on. The Yankees (70-72) have lost three straight after winning eight of nine and are in danger of their first losing season since 1992.

Taylor got his seventh career three-hit game and reached four times.

After Derek Jeter made his first Old-Timers' Day appearance, Milwaukee went ahead 2-0 in the fourth on Willy Adames' Little League home run. Adams hit an RBI triple and continued home when first baseman DJ LeMahieu's throw sailed past third for an error.

New York tied the score in the bottom half on Anthony Volpe's RBI single and Oswald Peraza's run-scoring grounder.

Milwaukee took a 5-2 lead in a three-run eighth against Loáisiga, who allowed five runs over 1 2/3 innings in the first two games of the series.

After Taylor's homer, Mark Canha hit a bloop RBI single and pinch-hitter Victor Caratini had a sacrifice fly. William Contreras had a two-run single in the ninth, when Ron Marinaccio walked in a run.

Joel Payamps (5-4) struck out rookie Jasson Domínguez with Aaron Judge on first to end the seventh.

Severino out for the season

Luis Severino was placed on the injured list and may have thrown his last pitch for the Yankees.

After the game, the Yankees said Severino has a high-grade left oblique strain and will miss the rest of the season.

Severino left his start against Milwaukee in the fifth inning Friday night following a leadoff single to Brice Turang on a 92 mph fastball.

After throwing his 70th pitch, Severino dropped his glove in front of the mound, doubled over in pain and walked around the mound. The 29-year-old was holding his left side near his oblique and was replaced by Jhony Brito after being checked out by an athletic trainer and manager Aaron Boone.

"I feel like somebody shot me. It's just like a deep sharp pain," an emotional Severino said while struggling to hold back tears.

Eligible for free agency after this season, Severino is 4-8 with an 6.65 ERA, though he had been 2-0 in three starts entering Friday after going 0-4 with a 14.18 ERA in his previous four appearances.

"I know he was really starting to be in that good place to hopefully have a really strong finish to the season and put himself in a good spot and really have some momentum going into the offseason," Boone said before Saturday's game against Milwaukee.

Severino did not make his season debut until May 21 because of a strained latissimus dorsi muscle. He is earning $15 million in the option year of contract paying him $55 million over five seasons.

He went 19-8 in 2018 and was picked as an All-Star for the second year in a row but is 13-12 with a 4.47 ERA in 45 starts since. Severino made his major league debut in August 2015 and is 54-37 with a 3.79 ERA in 141 games (125 starts).

"That's a tough one," said Yankee captain Aaron Judge, who debuted one year after Severino. "Coming with Sevy all through the years, I just know the type of competitor he is. He leaves it out there every single day, the setbacks he's had through his career and continuing to show up and it could be one of the last times he throws here at Yankee Stadium. I really don't know if I have the words just yet."

In 2019, he strained a lat muscle and didn't make his first start until Sept. 17. He made two more starts in the postseason and then had Tommy John surgery on Feb. 27, 2020. Severino returned in September 2021 and made three appearances, then missed two months last season because of right shoulder tightness.

"He's obviously at times been a great pitcher," Boone said. "The start of his career as a starter was so promising. He really was one of the dominant starters and even through the injuries that he's experienced over the last few years, when he has been healthy, he's shown you that performance when he has been healthy and then this year really struggled for the first time."

The Yankees recalled reliever Ron Marinaccio from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre to replace Severino on the roster.

Marinaccio is 4-5 with two saves and a 3.99 ERA in 45 appearances for the Yankees this year. The right-hander was 0-2 with a 7.11 ERA in his last 11 outings before being optioned to Triple-A on July 31.