Volpe became the first player ever to hit a go-ahead grand slam in the World Series with his team facing elimination, saving the Yankees he grew up rooting for.
How many times did a grade-school Anthony Volpe dream of this moment, lying in his childhood bed an hour southwest of Yankee Stadium, Yankees posters covering his walls, Yankees mailbox at the end of the driveway, Yankees game on the radio? How often did he imagine striding to the plate in a World Series game, two outs, bases loaded, winter one loss away, and coming through, clobbering a ball into the left field stands?Volpe, 23, could not have imagined what came next.
“That’s completely on me,” he says. “It’s not a hard read, one we practice, one that Little Leaguers make.” Opener Ben Casparius went two frames, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts summoned righty Daniel Hudson for the heart of the order in the third. He struck out right fielder Juan Soto but hit center fielder Aaron Judge with a four-seamer. Third baseman Jazz Chisholm singled, and DH Giancarlo Stanton, down 1–2, worked a walk. First baseman Anthony Rizzo popped to shortstop. Volpe strode to the plate more confident than you might expect.
But he says he had flushed all that. And the rest of the Yankees have insisted all week that his approach has been good. “He’s just totally locked in,” says Rizzo. “Swinging easy.” Even his foul balls, Rizzo says, indicate that he is timing the pitchers up well. Volpe’s love for the Yankees traces back generations. His grandfather, also named Anthony, was only four when his father went off to fight in World War II. When the older man returned three years later, his son did not recognize him.
“I felt the ground literally shaking,” says Wells. “These fans, they expect wins, and when you have a big home run like that to kind of spark the team like Volpe did, he got some well-deserved praise there.”
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