CHICAGO — At one level, Friday evening, Gleyber Torres merely went over to Isiah Kiner-Falefa and put his arm round his shoulder. Torres has been there and understands all too properly the strain of being the Yankees shortstop. Kiner-Falefa has had a foul spell defensively, charged with three errors within the two earlier video games he began after which Saturday he made an enormous baserunning mistake.
The Yankees tied the sport within the prime of the ninth inning when Joey Gallo led off with a stroll in opposition to Liam Hendriks and superior to 3rd on Kiner-Falefa’s single. Gallo scored on Kyle Higashioka’s sacrifice fly, however Kiner-Falefa killed the rally by being thrown out at third base. DJ LeMahieu struck out to finish the inning. The White Sox walked off the 3-2 win within the backside of the inning.
“Anytime you’ve got your big guys up with runners in scoring position, you can’t get thrown out there in that situation,” Kiner-Falefa mentioned. “It was a bonehead play and bad read and I’ll learn from it and it won’t happen again.”
That comes on prime of his latest defensive struggles.
Friday evening, he may have been charged with two errors. Kiner-Falefa has a -1 defensive runs saved score heading into Saturday evening’s sport in opposition to the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Park. He is within the backside 36 percentile in outs above common.
With one out within the first Friday, Kiner-Falefa booted Luis Robert’s floor ball after which bobbled it as he tried to select it up and what ought to have been a double-play became a bases-loaded scenario for Gerrit Cole. The Yankees ace received them out of that one. In the sixth, he couldn’t. The shortstop sailed a throw to first excessive permitting Robert to achieve main off the inning. Kiner-Falefa was not given an error on the play, however the subsequent batter, Sheets, homered.
That minimize the Yankees result in 7-3 and Kiner-Falefa instantly dropped his head and Torres went over to provide him a pat on the again.
That got here on the heels of Kiner-Falefa committing two errors Tuesday evening in opposition to the Blue Jays — and getting the following time off. Saturday, nevertheless, Aaron Boone had him proper again in there with no issues of this snowballing on him.
“No, no. Because I think he is so dynamic and athletic out there that he’ll get through this,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “Look, the plays that he didn’t make last night, he’s got to make those two, but I do think there’s a little bit of a field element to that that was going on. It’s really soft out there and watching it on both sides are just really tricky hops out there. So I think that played into it. Now you got to work around that. … But no, I’m not worried about it. Long term he’ll kind of get through this and this athleticism will continue to show up as it has most of the year.”
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