The New York Yankees staved off elimination for at least another day on Tuesday when they finally got their bats going to take down the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 in Game 4 of the World Series and force a Game 5 Wednesday with Gerrit Cole on the mound.
The big blow came with two outs in the third inning and the Yanks trailing 2-1 when Anthony Volpe ripped a grand slam to give his team the lead for good, and the hit wound up making World Series history.
MLB Stats shared that Volpe is the first player in World Series history to record four RBIs and two stolen bases in a World Series game.
Anthony Volpe is the first player in #WorldSeries history with 4 RBIs and 2 SBs. https://t.co/zYk0Q4Cj9f
Volpe had quietly been having a solid postseason prior to Game 4 but hadn’t delivered that iconic moment that he did with the grand slam.
Yankees fans had been begging for someone to come through in a huge moment, and Volpe’s at-bat was a big turning point in the series and will now go down in history.
The grand slam got the bats going and the Yankees piled on six more runs after Volpe’s huge at-bat to finally break out of the slump they had been in all series.
New York will look to carry over the momentum into Game 5 when they’ll see Jack Flaherty on the mound for the Dodgers again after he rolled right through the Yankees lineup in Game 1.
The Yanks have a long way to go to overcome this 3-0 deficit, but Volpe helped get them on the board and they simply have to take things one day at a time.