Anthony Volpe's grand slam in Game 4 of the World Series is what makes baseball great | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss Anthony Volpe's grand slam in the 3rd inning of Game 4 of the World Series that helped the Yankees keep their season alive. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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And the key moment of the game.
If you're listening to this, you already know what happened, Anthony Volpe first pitch slider low and inside from Daniel Hudson scoops it out to left field over the fence for a grand slam and this place explodes in this case after so many near misses, of course, not just in this game but in the previous game.
And for this, for Volpi, in particular, after, of course, having that blunder earlier and Volpe being, you know, the, the homegrown shortstop who grew up a Yankees fan, it's, it's all the moments and every everything you could, you could possibly imagine.
And uh and also the payoff of someone who has of course, had some really impressive at bats, but it was an awesome swing and an awesome moment for sure.
And obviously, you know, a lot more happens after that, but this really proved to be the difference.
Um in, in pretty much every sense the crowd pop in this place was worth the flight back from L A worth the ticket if you paid for one and Volpi delivering there created something very unique specifically to him because as overwrought as it is.
He's from around here and he grew up a Yanks fan and he loved Eric Jeter and it means an extra level of something to Anthony Volpe.
Not to say that, you know, we talk about this all the time.
Jordan.
I hate it when people say, oh, this team just didn't want it bad enough desire when it comes to playoff baseball is an irrelevant part of it.
Everyone wants this.
Right.
And I'm not suggesting that because Anthony Volpi grew up watching Brett Gardner play that he deserves to hit home runs at Yankee Stadium.
No, but there is like an added narrative layer because his bedroom had posters of AJ Burnett or whatever.
And it makes a moment like the one we saw tonight, even Richer the Yankees have leading on this guy to a historic amount in a player's first two seasons.
He started 308 total games combined over his first two years.
That is the third most ever for a player in their first two seasons.
I'm not saying third most ever for a Yankee or third most ever for a shortstop or third most ever for someone from New Jersey.
The third most game started in a player's first two years in baseball history.
It just conveys how much the Yankees trust this guy to eventually figure it out.