Torres’ 5 RBIs lead surging Yankees

Bronx Bombers top Blue Jays; win 15th in last 17

NEW YORK — Gleyber Torres sent a fastball soaring, started jogging toward first base and raised his right arm about the time a young boy in the first row of the right field short porch caught the ball on the fly.

Torres followed his go-ahead, three-run homer with a BLUE JAYS two-run single

3 and led

the surging New York Yankees over the

Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Wednesday for their 15th win in 17 games.

“My swing is getting better and better,” Torres said. “I think confidence is back, and that is the most important for me.”

A heralded phenom who is just 25, Torres came up to the Yankees in 2018 and became an All-Star in each of his first two seasons, hitting 62 home runs. But he slumped for the next two seasons, totaling just 12 long balls.

“I got too many opportunities to do things for my team and I missed. I failed,” Torres said.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone benched Torres for six of this season’s first 25 games, including opening

John Minchillo / Associated Press The Yankees' Gleyber Torres watches his three-run home run against the Blue Jays in the fourth inning on Wednesday in New York.