Yankees: Gleyber Torres responds to plunking Alex Bregman in MLB: The Show

Yankees star Gleyber Torres addressed drilling Astros cheater Alex Bregman with a pitch in a recent MLB: The Show stream.

Let’s trade in hypotheticals: If you were Yankees star Gleyber Torres, you’d hit as many Astros with as many pitches as possible in every video game you play for the next decade.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, we are glad Torres laughed off his recent online “brawl” with Alex Bregman in the same way the rest of us would.

Torres went viral this weekend for going after the Astros star/confirmed cheater with a digital fastball right above the number, giggling in the chat afterwards.

David Ortiz was on deck, too, meaning that Torres could’ve killed two birds with one stone and drilled back-to-back cheaters on some sort of All-Star lineup of Yankees enemies. The 23-year-old did show some restraint, though, only hitting one punchable face out of the two.

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All in good fun, obviously, and if Bregman bristles at this stupid virtual slight, then he’s even more of a baby than we already suspected.

Still, though, since this is 2020, Torres definitely couldn’t get away with broadcasting this to the world and then sneaking off rather than addressing his own behavior.

Torres tweeted on Friday night after the video went viral, laughing it all off as “nothing personal” yet again.

All good, but, I mean…it’s definitely something personal. Just because it’s not important doesn’t mean it’s not personal.

The Yankees and the rest of Major League Baseball were done a great disservice in 2020 by not getting an audience for their games against the villainous Astros — due to a regional schedule, New York didn’t face off with Houston at all. By all accounts, the empty stadiums and lack of pressure definitely aided the team’s run to within one game of a 3-0 ALCS comeback.

Hopefully, things are different in 2021 and we don’t have to resort to video game shenanigans — the Astros are set to play the Yanks in May. Wear your masks, cross your fingers for a vaccine, and get ready to scream yourself hoarse at these cheaters.

Will Gleyber Torres still be the shortstop when crowds return to the Bronx, though? Hopefully, Bregman doesn’t get the last laugh here.

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