TORONTO — Gleyber Torres arrived north of the border within the midst of a “psychological reset” and returned to the States as one of many Yankees’ hotter hitters.
Torres racked up his third straight two-hit sport on Sunday within the Yankees’ 8-1 win over the Blue Jays and is now 6-for-13 since coming back from his two-day benching — which he entered in a 2-for-29 stoop.
“Feels good,” Torres mentioned. “Simply day-to-day and attempt to be targeted each time I am going to house plate now. Simply take pleasure in. All my boys give me motivation, as a result of they’re grinding each at-bat. I simply wish to be a part of these at-bats and attempt to do the little issues.”
Torres acknowledged feeling like the 2 days off have helped him.
He spent them engaged on his swing within the cage, however supervisor Aaron Boone additionally wished him to mentally reset after his struggles had been weighing on him.
“One factor I do know is Gleyber can hit,” Boone mentioned. “To my core, I really feel like that’s going to occur. He had an excellent three days of at-bats right here. Even at this time, yeah he obtained a pair hits, however smoked one other ball to middle, simply missed a ball to proper.
“He’s having the form of Gleyber at-bats that’s good to see as a result of we want that. Hopefully he can carry that into the homestand.”
After Gerrit Cole drilled Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on the best hand with a 97 mph fastball within the third inning, Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman appeared to retaliate by hitting Aaron Decide with a fastball on his again within the fourth.
However the state of affairs by no means escalated.
The Yankees had some debate about pushing again Luis Gil or skipping his begin after coming off two straight clunkers, however as an alternative he’ll keep on flip and begin Tuesday’s collection opener towards the Reds.
Earlier than the sport, the Yankees designated reliever Phil Bickford for task and known as up lefty Josh Maciejewski.
Bickford was roughed up on Saturday, giving up 5 runs on 4 hits and a stroll throughout one-third of an inning.
Maciejewski flew to Toronto on Sunday morning and obtained his “pregame” throwing in in the course of the prime of the second inning — briefly giving a scare that one thing could be amiss with Cole — earlier than tossing a scoreless ninth inning.
The Yankees transferred JT Brubaker’s rehab task to Double-A Somerset, the place he made his third rehab begin Sunday, throwing three scoreless innings.
