Yankees hope key homer a promising sign for scuffling Gleyber Torres

MINNEAPOLIS — Good moments have been hard to come by for Gleyber Torres early this season.

But when he has had them, the Yankees second baseman has been doused with palpable relief each time.

There was the clutch three-run double against the Brewers on April 27, after which Torres said, “Finally I do something for the team,” and that he was going to get a good night’s rest because of it.

It did not quite serve as the springboard he and the Yankees hoped it might, so there was Torres again on Sunday at Tropicana Field, after crushing a three-run home run that helped ice the win over the Rays, sounding and looking like someone who had just taken a deep breath for the first time in a while.

“I don’t know what’s going to [happen] the next game, but for tonight, especially in that moment, it feels good,” Torres said. “That homer, I feel like I did something for the team to be part of the team. You see right now everybody gets some singles, homers. Just waiting for my moment. I got it and I feel happy.”

As Torres acknowledged, it was just one game.