MLB.com reports:
“Obviously, he's killed us all year. We are supposed to be making better pitches to him or not let him beat us, and we continue to throw the ball in the middle of the plate.”
You know a player’s having a pretty good season when the opposing manager -- in this case Baltimore's Brandon Hyde -- has that to say after the game. But it wasn’t just the three home runs Gleyber Torres hit across the two games of the Yankees' doubleheader sweep Monday at Yankee Stadium, including two in New York's 11-8 victory in the second contest. It’s the 13 homers he’s hit against the Orioles this year -- out of 26 total.
There are a lot of stats surrounding what Torres has done so far this season, both against the Orioles and overall. To recap the most notable of those:
• The 13 homers vs. the Orioles this season are the most by a player against a single opponent in the divisional era (since 1969).
• The 13 homers vs. the Orioles are tied for the second most by a player against a single opponent in a season in MLB history (record is Lou Gehrig's 14 vs. Cleveland in 1936).
• Torres is the first player since Roger Maris in 1961 vs. the White Sox -- his record-setting season -- with 13 homers against a single opponent in a season.
• Torres’ five multihomer games vs. the Orioles are the most by a player in a season against a single opponent.
• With 50 career homers, he’s the third-youngest Yankees player to reach that mark.
• Torres is the youngest player in American League history to reach 8 career multihomer games.
• The second-year player has surpassed his rookie-year homer total of 24.
• Torres is the first player since Mike Schmidt (1983 vs. the Expos) to homer in both games of a doubleheader twice against the same team in the same season. Torres also homered in both games of a twin bill vs. the Orioles on May 15.
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