Gleyber Torres was pulled from Thursday’s game against the Orioles with tightness in his right groin.
It came on a steamy afternoon in The Bronx in which Torres homered in the bottom of the second and played some shaky defense in the top of the fifth.
First, Torres back-handed a grounder up the middle by Jordan Westburg and was unable to handle it, which resulted in an error.
On the next play, Cedric Mullins hit a grounder to Torres and nearly beat Torres’ late throw to first.
The Yankees rallied for a pair of runs in the bottom of the inning, and Ben Rice went to the on-deck circle to hit for Torres, but an Alex Verdugo groundout ended the threat.
To start the sixth, the Yankees moved Oswaldo Cabrera from third to second to replace Torres in the field and shifted DJ LeMahieu from first to third, with Rice at first.
Cabrera quickly made an error at second, unable to come up with a hard grounder by Ramon Urias.
The injury to Torres is the latest setback in what’s been a mostly nightmarish season as he heads towards free agency for the first time.
He entered the game 0-for-15 in his previous five contests, with a miserable .629 OPS for the season.