CLEVELAND — There were quality at-bats. There was energy. There was urgency.
For one of the first times in this young season, the Yankees played up to their payroll.
“Tonight we showed what we are,” shortstop Gleyber Torres said after the Yankees shook off a rough first inning and rallied for a 6-3 win over Cleveland on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.
Rougned Odor’s two-out, two-run single broke a seventh-inning tie — and maybe jarred the Yankees from their hitting funk — as the team won for the second time in eight games and at least temporarily eased concerns of their passionate fans.