A day later, all eyes were on Gleyber Torres — including the approving eyes of Aaron Boone.
Boone, unhappy with Torres’ effort on a play in which he crushed a pitch off the left-field wall that became a long single — which burned the Yankees when Torres was thrown out at home on an Anthony Volpe double — was happy with the way Torres handled himself afterward.“He is an enormous part of this team, a key cog in what we’re doing,” Boone said from The Bronx before Saturday’s second game of the series.
Boone did not offer a whole lot more clarity into the reasoning behind a benching that he called a “gray area” and “nuanced.” “I felt convicted and strongly in that moment that I needed to do that,” said Boone, who also had sat down a slumping Torres after he did not run out a ground ball in a June game against the Mets. “I’m not peeling the onion back too much for you.”
After the loss, Aaron Judge said Boone’s hook showed that “if you’re not doing your job, you’re going to be out of there.”
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