Gleyber Torres spent weeks watching video this winter. The Yankees’ second baseman was sad and pissed off. For the primary two seasons of his profession, he was a rising younger star after which the following two seasons he was a disappointment. After the tip of the 2021 season, he retreated to the batting cages on the Yankees minor league advanced to try to rediscover the 2019 swing.
“Last year was a very [hard] struggle for me. And I mean after the season I see too many videos. I was working, working in the cage and all that kind of stuff,” Torres mentioned. “Now, I mean all the work I put in the offseason, I can show that every time I go to home plate. I mean I can still learn the game. I mean, it’s so difficult right now to hit, but I just try to be on top of the situation. And to be simple, try to put the ball in play.”
Wednesday, Torres confirmed off that offseason work once more. The second baseman drove in all 5 of the Yankees’ runs as they accomplished a two-game sweep of the Blue Jays with a 5-3 win on the Stadium.
Jameson Taillon overcame a tough first inning, however allowed simply two runs on six hits, walked a batter and struck out 4 in 5.1 innings of labor. DJ LeMahieu doubled and has reached base in 22 of his final 24 video games. Aaron Judge, who hit a three-run walkoff homer Tuesday evening, went 1-for-4 and has hit safely in 12 of his final 14 video games.
The Yankees (22-8) assumed management of one of the best file in baseball and, maybe extra importantly, continued to dominate an American League East challenger. The Bombers have gained six of the 9 video games they’ve performed to this point towards the Blue Jays (17-15). It’s simply the ninth time in franchise historical past, and simply the third time since 1959, that the Yankees gained 22 of their first 30 video games of the season. The final to do this was the 2003 Yankees staff.
Torres, who was demoted from the beginning shortstop job final season to sharing second base with LeMahieu this 12 months, has been contributing to that run.
Wednesday, the 25-year-old hit a go-ahead three-run residence run to proper subject within the fourth inning. The homer snapped an 0-for-11 skid and was his fourth homer in his final 11 video games.
Nine of his 20 hits this season have gone for further bases, that features his two-run double within the sixth inning. The 5 RBI have been one shy of his profession excessive, the six he placed on the Orioles in August 2019.
Those have been the “good old days,” for the younger Torres when he dominated the Orioles on his solution to hitting a career-high 38 residence runs in 2019. The final two years, Torres was in search of that feeling once more. He spent the primary month of the winter working with new Yankees hitting coach Dillon Lawson to try to rediscover that.
And it’s been there at occasions this season, Torres mentioned.
“The first month of the season, [I’ve been] back and forth. Some days good, some days bad,” Torres mentioned of his swing. “First of all, I feel really good. I mean, my swing has gotten better and better. And I’m working hard every day to be the way I want to be. But so far, so good. I think confidence is back and that is the most important thing for me.”
A assured and productive Torres is an enormous key for this staff, additionally seeing him go to the other subject with energy — like he did with Wednesday’s 361-foot homer to proper subject — is an effective signal.
“I’ve felt swing wise, since spring training, he’s been in a strong place. I feel like he’s getting into strong positions in the batter’s box to get off some good swings, and I feel like that’s happening,” Boone mentioned. “It’s good to see him driving the ball with authority the other way. That’s something obviously he’s done well in the past, where he has that ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark that way and I would say probably at least four [of his five homers] are the other way. So he’s done a good job of staying in the big part of the field. And had some big at-bats too. So I just feel like he’s really focused. His work has been really good. And he’s a big part of this.”
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