Gleyber Torres latest fielding gaffe didnt cost Yankees this time

Gleyber Torres already was benched once this season for a lack of hustle, and the Yankees’ second baseman cost his team again with another frustrating play Friday night.But Torres also has been hot at the plate throughout September, and he contributed to the team’s five-run comeback — culminating in Aaron Judge’s grand slam — with an RBI single in the seventh inning of a 5-4 win over the Red Sox at the Stadium.The run-scoring hit at least partly atoned for Torres’ defensive gaffe in the sixth, when he barely budged for a grounder to his left that went for a single ahead of Masataka Yoshida’s two-run homer.The chopper off the bat of Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran bounced between Torres and first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who immediately broke to cover the bag.Torres didn’t take even one step to his left on the play, and Duran later scored on Yoshida’s two-out blast to right for Boston’s first two runs against Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt.“Just a miscommunication,” Torres told The Post after the game.“I thought Rizz was closer, but in that situation, that can’t happen, especially in those late innings.

Miscommunication, but I have to make a break for that ball.That can’t happen.”Aaron Boone had pulled the 27-year-old Torres from a game Aug.

3 for not running out of the box and being held to a single on what he believed would be a home run against the Blue Jays.“He had just slid over a little bit to his right.It’s one of those in-between balls, but he’s gotta fire for it because there’s nowhere for him to not be,” Boone said after Friday’s game.

“I think it’s probably getting through anyway … but regardless, he’s gotta fire for it.”The Yanks waited for months for Torres to catch fire offensively, and the two-time All-Star second baseman at least is surging at the right time at the plate with the playoffs fast approaching.After going 1-for-4 with an RBI, Torres is batting .305 in 26 games since Boone elevated him ...