Gleyber Torres is taking his sudden table-setting prowess to the World Series.
Gleyber Torres is taking his sudden table-setting prowess to the World Series.
Torres led off the first and sixth innings with singles Saturday as he continued to be the ideal leadoff hitter that the Yankees didn’t know they had until the middle of his seventh MLB season.
After he was thrown out at home plate for the first out of the game, Torres jogged the final 85 or so feet to home plate when Giancarlo Stanton hit the game-tying two-out home run in the sixth as the Yankees flipped the script in what became a pennant-clinching 5-2 extra-innings victory in Game 5 of the ALCS.
Torres, who has been with the Yankees since 2018, said it’s “amazing” to reach the World Series with his teammates and has been glad to contribute from the leadoff spot.
“Just try to get great at-bats. … I don’t put so much pressure on myself. Just try to be on base for the entire lineup and do my part,” Torres told YES clubhouse reporter Meredith Marokovits during the champagne celebration. “Try to get on base. Try to create more runs and you know, to take really good at-bats.
