{"id":250423,"date":"2021-05-15T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gio-urshela-is-glue-guy-keeping-yankees-from-falling-apart\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:38:15","slug":"gio-urshela-is-glue-guy-keeping-yankees-from-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gio-urshela-is-glue-guy-keeping-yankees-from-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gio Urshela is glue guy keeping Yankees from falling apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Gio Urshela is glue guy keeping Yankees from falling apart<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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He can\u2019t be the Yankees\u2019 most valuable player to date, not with Gerrit Cole on the roster, and \u201cbest hitter\u201d doesn\u2019t quite cut it either, even in this team\u2019s diminished offensive state.<\/p>\n

Yet Gio Urshela deserves some sort of honorary title for his 2021 efforts to date, for building on his strong pinstrip<\/a>ed foundation of 2019-20, so how about this:<\/p>\n

Glue guy.<\/p>\n

The consistently reliable performer who keeps the whole operation from falling apart.<\/p>\n

Another turbulent day in the Yankees\u2019 universe featured a happ<\/a>y ending thanks to Urshela, whose pinch-hit, three-run, seventh-inning homer, punctuating a nine-pitch at-bat, elevated his club to a 5-4 victory over the Orioles, rewarding the Yankees loyalists who traveled down to Orioles Park at Camden Yards and \u2014 no small matter \u2014 covering up for some ugly baseball that preceded it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a good way of putting it. He has been an absolute glue guy for us,\u201d Aaron Boone said of Urshela. \u201cHe\u2019s hit everywhere in the order for us. Gotten a ton of big hits. And obviously special defensively for us as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just trying to keep that confidence that I\u2019ve been working on the last couple of years, bring that confidence every single day that I play,\u201d Urshela said. \u201cThat\u2019s all that I\u2019m trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gio Urshela is greeted by his teammates after hitting a three-run homer for the Yankees on Friday.<\/figcaption>
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The victory erased the stench of Thursday night\u2019s 9-1 loss to the Rays at Tropicana Field and eased the pain of neither Aaron Hicks (torn tendon sheath in left wrist) nor Giancarlo Stanton (left quad tightness) being available. Hicks\u2019 specific injury is a serious concern and anything with Stanton general<\/a>ly sets off alarms. Gleyber Torres, moreover, missed another game<\/a> due to his positive COVID-19 test, although it sounds like he might be the quickest to return.<\/p>\n

Urshela, who didn\u2019t start the game due to his own lingering left knee ailment, got the call from Boone in the seventh after Miguel Andujar singled and Kyle Higashioka walked with one out, after the O\u2019s had put together a three-run fifth inning against Corey Kluber to jump ahead, 4-2. To that juncture, the contest had been defined by Yankees sloppiness, from Clint Frazier\u2019s baffling baserunning in the fourth to a very questionable losing replay challenge to Tyler Wade\u2019s inability to put down a fifth-inning bunt or catch an Aaron Judge throw in the fifth. With Wade\u2019s turn coming, Boone fired his Urshela bullet. Said the manager: \u201cI\u2019m glad I had that sitting over there tonight as a weapon, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde called upon Travis Lakins to relieve Cole Sulser, and the right-hander gave it his all, firing off a blend of four-seam fastballs and cutters to get ahead, 1-and-2, and keep Urshela on his toes. Urshela, however, proved up to the task, looking at ball two and then fouling off four straight pitches.<\/p>\n