When Andrew Velazquez and Rougned Odor played on the left side of the field for much of the Yankees’ 13 Yankees winning streak, it was thought, “Wait until Gleyber Torres and Gio Urshela return.”
Now they are, and in any case, the left wing of the Yankees seems as unstable as ever.
Urshela made a couple of mistakes in his first game back with an injured left hand and Torres made his second sloppy mistake in so many other games in Monday’s 8-0 loss to the Blue Jays.
Aaron Boone said the Yankees “checked” Urshela’s hand and that she was fine.
Urshela said the same after the game.
“I really feel it [good]”I’m 100 percent,” Urshela said.
Boone was encouraged by Urshela to make some solid plays in third place after the game.
Torres began the ugly defensive play, dropping a routine Lourdes Gurriel Jr. helicopter. with one out in the second.
Boone did so until a poor transfer of the ball and credited Torres with playing well for the goalkeeper, a day after being slow on easy ground he went for a field goal in Sunday’s defeat. against Baltimore.
Jamesriel Taillon was caught first by Gurriel and sent off in the second to pull Torres off the hook, but Urshela continued with his first mistake of the day on a Danny Jansen ground.
Taillon retired the next hitter, Kevin Smith, to avoid injury.
With a runner in first place and one in third place, Urshela was wrong about Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Bo Bichette followed with a soft ball flying in the shallow center that could have scored a run if Brett Gardner hadn’t come in and made a dive catch, which turned into a double play throwing to second to get George Springer.
Neither did Urshela and Torres do much on the plate, with Torres going 0-3 with a couple of kicks and Urshela only in sixth place, as the entire Yankee lineup was shut down by four Blue Jays pitchers.