TORONTO — Gleyber Torres arrived north of the border in the midst of a “mental reset” and returned to the States as one of the Yankees’ hotter hitters.
Torres racked up his third straight two-hit game on Sunday in the Yankees’ 8-1 win over the Blue Jays and is now 6-for-13 since returning from his two-day benching — which he entered in a 2-for-29 slump.
“Feels good,” Torres said. “Just day-to-day and try to be focused every time I go to home plate now. Just enjoy. All my boys give me motivation, because they’re grinding every at-bat. I just want to be part of those at-bats and try to do the little things.”
Torres acknowledged feeling like the two days off have helped him.
He spent them working on his swing in the cage, but manager Aaron Boone also wanted him to mentally reset after his struggles had been weighing on him.
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“One thing I know is Gleyber can hit,” Boone said. “To my core, I feel like that’s going to happen. He had an outstanding three days of at-bats here. Even today, yeah he got a couple hits, but smoked another ball to center, just missed a ball to right.