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.
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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.
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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.
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