ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gleyber Torres tied his property operate complete from final season on Sunday, in 82 less games, even although dealing with a current wrist problem.
Torres crushed his ninth property operate of the yr in the 2nd inning off Shane McClanahan, giving the Yankees a lead in advance of they fell to the Rays 4-2 at Tropicana Field.
It was Torres’ 2nd home run of the sequence, and fourth in the previous week, regardless of getting procedure for a wrist problem. Torres has been carrying a wrap on the wrist just before and in the course of video games and then an ice wrap immediately after video games during this 4-match set, but he indicated on Friday it was not an situation.
“He’s been having some remedy for his wrist, but it has not been a thing that’s genuinely affected him a lot at all in the sport,” manager Aaron Boone mentioned ahead of the recreation. “Just a little something he’s treating and generating certain he does servicing do the job on it.”
Boone was uncertain if everything in certain brought on the wrist to flare up.
“I believe it is just some thing that’s kind of creeped up on him,” Boone reported.
Torres went 3-for-4 and extra a sharp defensive engage in in the seventh inning, sliding to his correct and firing house to get a power out at the plate.
Torres’ ninth home operate came in his 45th recreation of the year and 161st plate appearance. Last calendar year, he experienced 9 homers in 127 video games and 516 plate appearances. In 2020, he only hit a few homers in 42 video games and 160 plate appearances.
Inspite of becoming a single of the Yankees’ best hitters in the very first thirty day period of the time, Anthony Rizzo has long gone equally cold given that.
The initial baseman went -for-4 Sunday, slipping additional into the slump he has been in for the previous thirty day period.
In his 1st 20 video games of the season, Rizzo hit .284/.391/.703 with 9 property runs, 21 RBIs, 9 walks and 12 strikeouts. In 26 online games given that entering Sunday, he was hitting .165/.284/.308 with two house runs, seven RBIs, 14 walks and 20 strikeouts.
Rizzo’s lone strike of the series versus the Rays was an RBI double smoked to ideal area on Thursday.
“He’s gotten some large hits for us,” Boone mentioned. “But I believe it’s that good quality of contact. … It is just that little tick exactly where when he receives off his very good swing or gets on time with a pitch, it’s just barely missing definitely clipping it. I think that’s one of the factors that just occurs with the ebb and movement of the period. He’s even now obtaining on foundation a minimal little bit. But I believe it is just shoring up when he receives his pitch and he’s on time, building certain he sticks it.”
Catcher Rob Brantly, who was designated for assignment on Wednesday soon after being identified as up to fill in even though Kyle Higashioka was on the COVID IL, elected no cost agency on Friday in its place of accepting an outright assignment to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. But on Saturday, the Yankees re-signed him to a slight league contract and assigned him to SWB.
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