It’s time for Luis Severino to reach out to his guru Pedro Martinez once again, although the ask will be less conventional this time.

Nearly three years ago, the Hall of Famer Martinez worked with his fellow Dominican Republican native Severino on his pitching mechanics and his changeup, producing very fruitful results for the Yankees club that Pedro once called his daddy. Yet as Severino prepares for his American League Championship Series Game 3 start Tuesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, with his Yankees and the Astros tied at one game apiece, he must pose a different sort of question, one that the three-time Cy Young Award winner perhaps wouldn’t love:

“Can you tell me how the Yankees beat you in your prime so often?”

With superman Gerrit Cole taking the mound for the Astros, Severino must lead the charge in holding serve against the dangerous Houston lineup until Cole’s relievers enter the picture. Just as the Yankees used to do against Pedro.

“I don’t need to go out there and strike out 300 guys, or win 20 games,” Severino said Monday at Yankee Stadium. “I just need to go out there and match his stuff tomorrow. I don’t need to do more than that.”

From the start of the 1998 season, Martinez’s first with the Red Sox, through June 2001 — at which he point he suffered a significant right shoulder injury and never dominated quite the same afterward — the diminutive right-hander faced the Yankees 14 times, including the playoffs. Boston went 6-8 in those games. In Martinez’s other 97 appearances in a Red Sox uniform during that time, his club posted a 73-24 mark.

The Yankees’ lineup didn’t beat up on Martinez to achieve that success, not at all. Actually, the most damage the Yankees did against Peak Pedro came in a 13-7 loss on May 31, 1998, when they scored four runs in 5 ²/₃ innings at Fenway Park. Yet they consistently prevailed because their own pitchers — from Roger Clemens to David Cone to Orlando Hernandez to Ramiro Mendoza to Mike Mussina — did their part in taming the usually impressive Red Sox offense as the Yankees guys tried to wear out Martinez.

“[We] expect Sevy to go out and pitch really well,” Aaron Boone said Monday. “So I don’t know if it’s deviate much [strategically or approach-wise] because [Cole] is going. You’ve got to be on top of your game if you’re going to have success, and that will be our focus.”

It can’t be easy to feel on the top of one’s game when one has pitched only four times in the major leagues this season, yet that’s where Severino stands after missing much of the season with right shoulder and lat issues, and the Yankees possess no other realistic options.

After properly lifting James Paxton in the third inning of Sunday night’s Game 2, Boone and the Yankees really could use a respectable outing from Severino. Even matching the four innings he threw against the Twins in AL Division Series Game 3, a start in which the right-hander stranded Minnesota base runners and fully escaped a no-outs, bases-loaded jam in the second inning, would go a long way.

Or, these Yankees could prove that they’re superior to their Torre Dynasty predecessors with the bats, or that Cole isn’t quite Peak Pedro.

“We expect to have success,” Boone said. “We know it’s going to be tough. Four o’clock game, the shadows will probably play an issue, as well, and make it difficult. But hopefully as a group, we can have some success against [Cole], whether that’s wearing him down a little bit, whether that’s taking advantage of a couple of mistakes that we do get.”

“Wearing him down a little bit” seems like the most realistic option. That’s all the Yankees of a generation ago did to Martinez, with a major assist from their pitchers. And things worked out well enough for that group, didn’t they?