Tag: Gleyber Torres

Gerrit Cole was visibly frustrated with Gleyber Torres after a defensive miscue at second base

Cole showing up a teammate?

It’s been a somewhat disappointing early start to the season for the Yankees. While they’re a few games above .500, they’re sitting at last place in a stacked American League East. And when they’re playing a red-hot team like the Tampa Bay Rays, they absolutely cannot afford to give the Rays extra outs.

But at the same time, it’s never a good look for a pitcher to show up his teammate. And Gerrit Cole drifted awfully close to doing that on Sunday.

With a runner on and two outs in the second inning against the Rays, Gleyber Torres made a running, back-hand stab at a chopping grounder up the middle. But instead of taking the easy out at first base, Torres turned and tried to reach for second base. The Yankees got no outs from the defensive miscue.

Yet, take a look at Cole’s reaction to the play.

He rolled his eyes and shouted, “Oh my God.”

That’s one of those plays where you’d like to see the pitcher move on from and focus on the next batter. And despite showing the frustration, he got Christian Bethancourt to ground into a fielder’s choice the following at-bat.

Fans had thoughts on the exchange too.

Yankees’ Gleyber Torres ruthlessly mocked Josh Naylor’s ‘rock the baby’ celebration after eliminating Guardians

What an epic troll job from Gleyber Torres here.

Gleyber Torres was absolutely merciless with this troll job on Josh Naylor.

On Tuesday, the New York Yankees bested the Cleveland Guardians 5-1 in Game 5 of the ALDS. Thanks to the win, the Yankees now move on to the ALCS to face the Houston Astros, who bested New York in six games back in 2019. Giancarlo Stanton got the ball rolling for the Yankees with a three-run home run in the first and the team never looked back from there.

Coming into Game 5, Naylor’s “rock the baby” home run celebration from the previous game was all anyone could talk about. Yankees fans mocked Naylor with a “who’s your daddy?” chant all night, with many in the stands mimicking the motion or bringing actual dolls to complete the bit. And when the final out came through for the Yankees, Torres capped it off with a ruthless mocking of Naylor’s celebration.

Fair play to Torres and the Yankees, honestly! Naylor and the Guardians couldn’t back up their words with actions and as a result have to suffer the consequences. Here’s how MLB fans reacted to Torres mocking Naylor’s “rock the baby” celebration as the Yankees eliminated the Guardians.

The Red Sox could not stop making errors on a wild Yankees’ little league homer

What an unreal sequence!

Whenever the Red Sox and Yankees (-1.5) get together, you know something wild might happen. With New York trying to solidify itself as AL East champion during the stretch run of the season, Wednesday night’s matchup at Fenway Walk held even more weight in this rivalry.

And boy, did we get a great treat at the top of the fifth inning. Gleyber Torres was at the plate against Brayan Bello with two players on base. When Torres hit a line drive into right field, for whatever reason, the Red Sox made a few extremely regrettable errors. Because of this, what should’ve been a routine single turned into a three-run little league homer for Torres.

Oh yeah, it was as wild as it sounds:

By my count: That’s a bad throw from the outfield, then a bad throw to first base, followed by a sad throw to home as Torres came around the diamond. See, I told you Red Sox-Yankees usually delivers.

Yankees’ Gleyber Torres was mic’d up while amusingly calling out his own double play highlight

“We got a highlight here!”

It’s always a joy to see baseball players mic’d up and having fun while out in the field.

On ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, the New York Yankees were visiting rival Boston Red Sox in an AL East matchup. As is tradition, the SNB crew often tags a few players to be mic’d up during the game, and second baseman Gleyber Torres got the honors in the third inning.

In the bottom of the third with runners on first and third with one out, pitcher Jameson Taillon was able to get Xander Bogaerts to ground to short to start a double play. Torres capped off the inning-ending double play with a nifty catch and throw to get the Yankees back to the dugout with minimal damage.

The best part? Torres nonchalantly called out his own highlight after the play was over!

Not a bad play from Torres there either! Great stuff all around.

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Rangers manager wrongly blamed Gleyber Torres’ walk-off HR on the Yankees’ ‘Little League ballpark’

It was a HR in 26 of 30 ballparks.

The New York Yankees took Game 1 of Sunday’s doubleheader with the Texas Rangers, 2-1, in dramatic fashion. And in the process, Rangers manager Chris Woodward managed to get himself crushed by Yankees fans.

It’s no secret across baseball that the right-field wall to Yankee Stadium is notoriously short. It’s been that way since the stadium opened, and left-handed betters absolutely feast on that short porch. It’s how Anthony Rizzo made history earlier this season with the least powerful three-homer game of the Statcast era. Everyone knows about it.

But in Gleyber Torres’ case, it was probably a bit unfair to dismiss his heroics as merely a gift from Yankee Stadium.

With the score tied in the bottom of the ninth, Torres took a 3-1 sinker the opposite way for a walk-off home run over that right-field wall. Now, I can understand the frustration about a ton of Yankee Stadium home runs. But Woodward probably should have at least looked at the measurements before calling Torres’ home run an “easy out in 99 percent of ballparks.”

Torres’ home run went 369 feet at 106.5 mph off the bat. It would have been a home run in 26 of the 30 MLB ballparks — not an out in 99 percent of ballparks. So, as much as Woodward didn’t want to blame John King for allowing the home run, his pitcher just has to execute better next time. It wasn’t the stadium’s fault. Both teams played there.

Just to be sure, though, Giancarlo Stanton hit a 461-foot home run in Game 2.

Yankees fans, of course, had plenty of “Little League park” jokes after those remarks.

Astros’ shift let Gleyber Torres astonishingly score from first on a ball that never left the infield

That’s how you beat a shift.

The past few days, we’ve heard plenty about how the Yankee Stadium crowd has directed all the creativity and vitriol towards the Astros in response to the Houston sign-stealing scandal.

But let’s not forget that actual baseball was played because, well, this series was so much fun. It even included one of the most ridiculous and heads-up runs scored you’ll see.

With the Yankees down two runs in the eighth inning with Gleyber Torres on at first, Aaron Hicks hit a hard liner up the middle that was knocked down by Carlos Correa who was playing to the right of second base as part of a shift. That was when chaos ensued.

Torres, seeing that third baseman Alex Bregman was around second base with third uncovered, continued running despite the ball staying in the infield. And when catcher Martin Maldonado tried to cover third, Torres saw that home was uncovered, so he channeled his inner Forrest Gump and just kept running (and outran Maldonado who tried to catch up to cover home).

The Astros could only watch as Torres dove into home.

It was equal parts hilarious and genius.

Fans may have mixed feelings about extreme shifts in today’s MLB, but you have to admit that Torres’ heads-up running was a spectacular way to beat the shift.

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