Talk about being locked in. As New York Yankees infielder Gleyber Torres was gearing up for Friday’s early-afternoon game against the AL East rival Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium, an earthquake hit the New York area and clearly shook the camera that captured his batting practice session.
Incredibly, Torres didn’t so much as step out of the box, or give the ole’ hand up gesture to his designated soft tosser. The Earth quaketh, and batting practice Torres continued to taketh without a second’s interruption.
Gleyber Torres kept hitting batting practice even in the middle of an earthquake at Yankee Stadium!
NTT #BallparkCam | @Yankees pic.twitter.com/f0P34TMD06
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) April 5, 2024
The personalities in the studio for MLB Network also had their set rocked by the quake, and host Robert Flores declared, “We’ll finally be on Awful Announcing!” which I thought was quite a funny improvisational line. Awful obliged, too.
"Are we having an earthquake? Seriously. Are we having an earthquake? … Hey, we're finally going to end up on Awful Announcing!"
— "MLB Central" reacts live to a 4.8-magnitude earthquake hitting the greater New York area pic.twitter.com/nJUq4DbQeh
— The Recount (@therecount) April 5, 2024
That's one way to get our attention. https://t.co/zhFKD0MWxH
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 5, 2024
Torres is already a two-time All-Star at age 27 for one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports. Given how much of a marathon the MLB’s cartoonishly long 162-game regular season is, I wouldn’t blame him for coasting a bit. The Yanks are off to a 6-1 start, yet Torres has an underwhelming .214 batting average to date. Nothing to be super alarmed about, especially since Torres has four hits in 13 April at-bats. I guess he wants to make sure he’s still trending in the right direction after stumbling out of the gates. Dude is dialed in the early going.
Anyway, early reports seem to indicate the earthquake didn’t do a ton of significant damage, but it’s nevertheless alarming and historically strong for a region that doesn’t get them very often at all.
WATCH: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul calls today's earthquake "one of the largest earthquakes on the East coast to occur in the last century.” pic.twitter.com/LORNeEU9gu
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 5, 2024
If Torres could still take BP with this quake hitting, I’m quite confident in saying that damages will be minimal, if any. People are already popping off on the social medias with jokes about it, and this one in particular got me really good.
NYC Earthquake?
Nah, that was just Lisa From Temecula cutting up a steak for breakfast pic.twitter.com/Ey1uF384jY
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) April 5, 2024
Speaking of New York and Saturday Night Live and all, Pedro Pascal is just crushing it these days, isn’t he? Between being the Fantastic Four’s new Reed Richards, to The Mandalorian, to The Last of Us to endearingly breaking character on SNL, the man can do no wrong.
Now that we’re here, why not plug one of the best video sketches in recent years below?
