Coming into Sunday’s game, New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres was the not-so-proud owner of a .000 batting average and a .750 fielding percentage. The 23-year-old star blamed pent up baseball juices for that substandard performance.
“In the first two games of the season, I was too excited, after four months [of not playing],” he told the New York Post’s Ken Davidoff. “I got too much energy. I [woke] up today thinking about putting the ball in play.”
In the Yankees’ first two games, Torres went 0-for-6 with a strikeout and one walk.