Yankees blow Game 1 World Series lead after Gleyber Torres’ awful error

Another Yankees protect lapse burned them erstwhile again.

A Gleyber Torres correction successful nan eighth inning led to nan Yankees blowing their one-run lead, and nan Dodgers evened nan people astatine 2-2.

It marked nan 3rd protect blunder by nan Yankees and nan 2nd that led to a run, pinch Juan Soto playing a double into a triple, resulting successful nan game’s first tally successful nan 5th inning.

Torres attempts to section nan throw. @TalkinYanks/X

The shot skips distant from Torres arsenic Ohtani goes to third. @TalkinYanks/X

With nan Yankees leading, 2-1, pinch 1 retired and nary connected successful nan eighth, Shohei Ohtani almost homered disconnected reliever Tommy Kahnle, but alternatively settled for a shot disconnected nan wall.

Soto could not drawback nan shot cleanly and fired to 2nd late, and Torres nonchalantly attempted to snag nan shot connected 1 hop without getting his assemblage successful beforehand of it.

The shot skipped distant from and moved Ohtani to an unoccupied 3rd pinch 1 out.

Mookie Betts followed pinch a sacrifice alert disconnected Yankees person Luke Weaver to moreover nan people heading into nan ninth inning.

The crippled went to extras aft nary 1 scored successful nan ninth.