A day later, all eyes were on Gleyber Torres — including the approving eyes of Aaron Boone.

Torres was back at second base and hitting fifth on Saturday after getting pulled for not hustling three innings into Friday’s loss.

Boone, unhappy with Torres’ effort on a play in which he crushed a pitch off the left-field wall that became a long single — which burned the Yankees when Torres was thrown out at home on an Anthony Volpe double — was happy with the way Torres handled himself afterward.

In the immediate aftermath, Torres returned to the dugout and cheered on his teammates.

After the 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays, Torres accepted responsibility in a media session and apologized to fans and teammates.

“He is an enormous part of this team, a key cog in what we’re doing,” Boone said from The Bronx before Saturday’s second game of the series. “As I’ve told him, if we’re going to get to where we want to go, he’s an important part of that.”

Boone did not offer a whole lot more clarity into the reasoning behind a benching that he called a “gray area” and “nuanced.”

It was not simply about a hitter not sprinting to first base on a ball that hitter believed would be a home run; Boone (and the other 29 MLB managers) would have to bench just about everyone if such an action were routinely punished.

“I felt convicted and strongly in that moment that I needed to do that,” said Boone, who also had sat down a slumping Torres after he did not run out a ground ball in a June game against the Mets. “I’m not peeling the onion back too much for you.”

Boone did acknowledge that “it was certainly a message,” and it sounds as if it was one sent to more than just Torres.

After the loss, Aaron Judge said Boone’s hook showed that “if you’re not doing your job, you’re going to be out of there.”

Boone trusted that Torres — and the other eight players in the starting lineup — would do his job Saturday.

“It’s really as simple as: I felt in that moment [Friday] night that I needed to do that for our team,” Boone said.