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

Another Yankees defensive lapse burned them.

A Gleyber Torres error in the eighth inning led to the Yankees blowing their one-run lead, and the Dodgers evening the score at 2-2.

It marked the third defensive blunder by the Yankees and the second that led to a run, with Juan Soto playing a double into a triple, resulting in the game’s first run in the fifth inning.

With the Yankees leading, 2-1, with one out and none on in the eighth, Shohei Ohtani almost homered off reliever Tommy Kahnle, but instead settled for a ball off the wall.

Soto could not grab the ball cleanly and fired to second late, and Torres nonchalantly attempted to snag the ball on one hop without getting his body in front of it.

The ball skipped away from and moved Ohtani to an unoccupied third with one out.

Mookie Betts followed with a sacrifice fly off Yankees closer Luke Weaver to tie the score heading into the ninth inning.

The game went to extras after no one scored in the ninth.