Gleyber Torres usually makes catching pop-ups in shallow right field look casual, but that may have backfired on him Friday.

Torres dropped what should have been a routine pop-up in the third inning, attempting to make an over-the-shoulder basket catch on a ball hit by Kiké Hernandez.

Cody Poteet made sure the error did not come back to hurt the Yankees, picking off Hernandez at first base for the second out and eventually getting out of the inning unscathed.

Manager Aaron Boone, after the Dodgers’ 2-1, 11-inning win over the Yankees, defended his second baseman while acknowledging how it looked.

”He’s as good a pop-up catcher as we’ve had,” Boone said. “Every time he goes to catch one, I go, ‘Ahh,’ because it’s not how I’d do it. But he’s really good at doing it. Missed a play today. I get how it looks sometimes with Gleyber. The reality is the last month he’s played really good defense. Nobody talks about a lot of the plays he makes.”

Torres did make a few strong plays Friday night before the pop-up gaffe and had arguably his best defensive game of the season last week to help the Yankees beat the Angels during their road trip.

But the optics of Friday’s blunder were not ideal.

“He dropped a pop-up. That’s how he catches pop-ups,” Boone said. “Not necessarily how I’d do it, but he’s really good at catching them actually. I get it and I don’t want it dropped. But it does happen. I can’t recall it going back now six or seven years that he’s dropped a pop-up, and he catches them like that a lot. It’s how he slows the game down a little bit and I get how sometimes it looks to people.”

Gerrit Cole will make his second rehab start on Sunday with Double-A Somerset, keeping him on track to return to the Yankees by the end of June if all goes well.

The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner threw 45 pitches across 3 ¹/₃ innings on Tuesday with Somerset. He could build up to 55-60 pitches on Sunday.

The Yankees have not put a specific number on how many rehab starts Cole will make before being activated off the 60-day IL, but he is expected to need at least one more after Sunday.

Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe both extended their on-base streaks to 33 games.

Judge doubled in the first inning and Volpe singled in the eighth.

It marks the first time in the last 85 years the Yankees have had two players with on-base streaks of at least 33 games in a single season.