BALTIMORE -- When Gleyber Torres packed up his baseball belongings Wednesday ahead of the New York Yankees' first two-city road trip of the season, he accidentally left something behind -- his batting gloves.
Since he still needed a pair to hit with when the Yankees opened their series against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards on Thursday, New York's equipment staff reached into its cache of extra gameday items.
Maybe that's where the 22-year-old's extra power came from.
Handed a pair of former Yankee Alex Rodriguez's old No. 13 batting gloves and sent on his way, Torres went on a proverbial hitting tear Thursday, cranking out four hits, slugging two home runs, stamping his name next to Joe DiMaggio's and leading the depleted Bronx Bombers to a much-needed early-season win.