Gleyber Torres suffered a left forearm injury that forced the Detroit Tigers to scratch him Tuesday, Aug. 5, from the lineup against the Twins.
Gleyber Torres has returned to the starting lineup.
It's unclear how it happened, but Torres suffered a left forearm injury that forced the Detroit Tigers to scratch him Tuesday, Aug. 5, from the lineup against the Minnesota Twins.
Torres throws with his right arm.
After missing one game, Torres returned to the Tigers' lineup — batting second and playing second base — for the series finale Wednesday, Aug. 6, at Comerica Park.
"I told him to do some work before the game," manager A.J. Hinch said before Wednesday's game. "If anything comes up, I can slot Andy (Ibáñez) in there and get him another day. But he assured me that everything was fine, and he thought he would be good to go."
After Tuesday's game, Hinch said Torres reported tightness in his left forearm.
He had dealt with the forearm pain for a couple of days.
"He didn't really love the way that he could swing," Hinch said after Tuesday's game, "and so he thought one at-bat off the bench, if we needed it, was better. Once he said that, I took him out of the lineup and pretty much made him unavailable."
Torres didn't need to be scratched from Wednesday's game.
"He's got some general soreness," Hinch said before Wednesday's game. "If you see him scratched, that means he's more sore than usual. But right now, the information I have is he's good to go."
Torres, 28, is hitting .273 with 13 home runs, 55 walks and 59 strikeouts in 101 games, posting a .796 OPS. He has hit four home runs in his past eight games.
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A.J. Hinch trusts Matt Vierling
The Tigers lost, 6-3, in Tuesday's game.
The Twins scored three runs in the first inning, one run in the fourth inning and two runs in the fifth inning.
The runs in the first and fifth innings were sparked by mistakes by center fielder Matt Vierling on fly balls. He misplayed balls on doubles from Ryan Jeffers in the first and fifth innings. On both plays, bad reads led to bad routes, which led to the ball carrying over his head for extra bases.
"We'll look at his jump," Hinch said after Tuesday's game. "The routes look funky, which means his first read wasn't the correct read, but I like that he went after it on his first read."
Hinch put Vierling in center field for Wednesday's game.
He still trusts Vierling.
"You can't redo it," Hinch said before Wednesday's game. "I thought they were tough plays, but they're plays that everybody could say that can be made. He's the first one to tell you that. It's not a matter of whether he can play center, it's just completing the play."
Vierling is hitting .220 with seven walks and 23 strikeouts in 28 games, posting a .705 OPS. The 28-year-old outfielder is still searching for his first home run in 2025 after hitting a career-high 16 homers in 144 games in 2024.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Gleyber Torres injury update: All-Star 2B returns to lineup
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