Gleyber Torres’ latest fielding gaffe didn’t cost Yankees this time
NY Post
Gleyber Torres already was benched once this season for a lack of hustle, and the Yankees’ second baseman cost his team again with another frustrating play Friday night.
But Torres also has been hot at the plate throughout September, and he contributed to the team’s five-run comeback — culminating in Aaron Judge’s grand slam — with an RBI single in the seventh inning of a 5-4 win over the Red Sox at the Stadium.
The run-scoring hit at least partly atoned for Torres’ defensive gaffe in the sixth, when he barely budged for a grounder to his left that went for a single ahead of Masataka Yoshida’s two-run homer.
The chopper off the bat of Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran bounced between Torres and first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who immediately broke to cover the bag.
Torres didn’t take even one step to his left on the play, and Duran later scored on Yoshida’s two-out blast to right for Boston’s first two runs against Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt.
“Just a miscommunication,” Torres told The Post after the game. “I thought Rizz was closer, but in that situation, that can’t happen, especially in those late innings. Miscommunication, but I have to make a break for that ball. That can’t happen.”
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.