Starter Luis Severino did not give the Yankees great length again.

But he gave them a victory.

Guess what they wanted more?

For the seventh time in eight starts, Severino failed to complete six innings. And more disturbing on the list of recent headache trends was the All-Star going 1-4 with a gosh-awful 7.84 ERA in his previous six starts before Saturday. That little grouping included his shortest outing of the season, a four-inning stinker Monday against the Mets.

So the Yankees will shut up and gleefully take Severino completing five innings and walking off the mound with an 8-1 lead and one runner left on base against Toronto Saturday at Yankee Stadium.

“Of course you want to go seven,” Severino said. “But there were a lot of 3-2 counts, a lot of foul balls.”

And one win. So who cares about the length for now?

In all, Severino yielded six hits and walked two with eight strikeouts. The runner he left behind scored, but the Yankees went on to an 11-6 victory that raised Severino’s record to 16-6 and left him with a 3.28 ERA.

“He came out on the attack early. I thought there was some real urgency especially in that first inning. I thought the fastball was much better today. Much crisper,” manager Aaron Boone said. “He had a couple strikeout on changeups in the first inning. But I thought when he missed with his fastball, he was missing how you want to miss.

“He walked a couple guys and had deeper counts where he was just off the edge with his fastball but not making mistakes in the center of the plate.”

Severino slipped in and out of trouble before his removal. He had one runner in each of the first four innings. Twice, in the first and second innings, the dust-up came from an eventual harmless two-out hit. In the third, he picked off the guy he walked, former Yankee Billy McKinney, moved in the J.A. Happ trade. In the fourth, after a leadoff walk, he struck out three straight, using a slider for the put away each time. He gave up two fifth-inning singles. Two hits, a double and an RBI single, to start the sixth ended his day.

All things considered — especially his recent history — no complaints.

“I was feeling pretty good. I was getting ahead in the count, a couple deep counts but I think I was commanding my fastball,” said Severino, who acknowledging mixing in his changeup more and using a productive slider through his 100-pitch effort.

And for all the recent worries and struggles, he has 16 wins, tied with Max Scherzer for the MLB lead.

“It means my team is helping,” Severino said. “A lot of homers every time I go to the mound, they support me.”

One area that pleased Severino was his improvement against the running game — “I’ve been doing a bad job, a lot of steals in the past games,” he said. So in the third, he picked off McKinney.

And he was pleased — very pleased — with his fastball command, which helped him feel like the pitcher he was in the first half.

“I feel pretty good. Most of the game I was dominating,” Severino said, admitting his sixth inning struggled. “Before that everything was great. I feel good, my body is strong and my confidence is way up.”