DETROIT — Gleyber Torres snapped his hitless streak Thursday with a pinch-hit single within the eighth inning of the Yankees 3-0 loss to the Tigers. Still, the younger infielder is discovering himself the odd man out within the beginning lineup.
After extending his hitless streak to 0-for-17 with an 0-for-4 on Wednesday, he was out of the beginning lineup for the sequence finale at Comerica Park. It was the second time in three video games he didn’t begin, the irregular taking part in time is now the results of his struggles and the Yankees crowded infield.
“Just a little off. I thought yesterday his first at bat against (Eduardo) Rodriguez was good. Almost clipped him to left center there,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned of Torres struggles on the plate. “Just just a little bit maybe a little bit off the last few games because I actually felt like the first week, I thought he was swinging the bat pretty good, but not getting a ton of results. So I don’t feel that he’s far off feeling his BPs have been really strong, so confident he’ll get it going.”
The drawback is that Torres hasn’t gotten it going over the previous two seasons.
After a stellar rookie yr, Torres had a breakout season in 2019, hitting a career-high 38 dwelling runs and slashing .279/.337/.535 with an .871 OPS. That energy was sufficient for the Yankees to miss his defensive woes and transfer forward with Torres as their shortstop.
Torres has hit 12 dwelling runs over the past two seasons.
In 2020, the Yankees—and to be honest different groups’ expertise evaluators—felt that Torres was simply hindered by the actual fact he confirmed up after the COVID-19 spring coaching shutdown off form and that resulted in a leg harm. Last yr, in 127 video games, Torres had 9 homers and 51 RBI. He is slashed .259/.331/.366 with a .697 OPS. He additionally had a career-high 14 stolen bases.
But his protection was so dangerous that the Yankees needed to transfer him again to second base final season and exit and get Isiah Kiner-Falefa this spring. And now the Yankees have a wholesome DJ LeMahieu, with 5 years left on his $90 million deal, who’s a greater hitter and second baseman. LeMahieu is on a seven-game hitting streak and hitting .306.
In Wednesday’s sequence finale towards the Tigers at Comerica Park, Boone felt he wanted to play utility infielder Marwin Gonzalez, who final performed Friday evening, and couldn’t hold LeMahieu out of the lineup.
“I’ve been wanting to get Marwin in there and get him a day,” Boone mentioned. “So, and obviously DJ’s on a pretty good stretch right now. So yeah, I mean just mix and match a little bit. But I wouldn’t read too much into it.”
NO SURPRISE
Lucas Luetge form of knew what was coming. With first base open and Miguel Cabrera coming to the plate with 2,999 hits, the Yankees’ lefty totally anticipated supervisor Aaron Boone to nonetheless deliberately stroll the veteran slugger and face Austin Meadows.
When (pitching coach Matt) Blake got here on the market we’re gonna have a sport plan to face Cabrera after which Boone made the choice and rightfully so with a lefty on deck and we’re attempting to win a sport,” Luetge mentioned. “As great as it is to see 3,000 (hits) we’re not concerned with that as much as they are.”
The crowd was very involved. They had been offended and vocal. Luetge stepped off the mound to regroup.
“I was just trying to slow the game down for that because if you get going fast and let the crowd get into it, then it can kind of go downhill real fast there,” Luetge mentioned. “So to me I used to be simply taking my time simply to form of get the group out of the sport just a bit bit.
Meadows had been 0-for-5 towards Luetge when he was with the Rays, however the outfielder doubled off him Thursday to drive in two extra runs.
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