Anthony Volpe’s grand slam fuels Yankees’ 11-4 win over Dodgers in World Series Game 4, keeping season alive

In Game 1 of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a comeback against the Yankees with a dramatic, go-ahead expansive slam.

On Tuesday nighttime successful the Bronx, the Yankees returned the favor.

Anthony Volpe’s third-inning expansive slam powered a 11-4 triumph implicit the Dodgers successful Game 4, preventing a World Series expanse and keeping the Yankees’ play live for astatine slightest 1 much night.

Volpe’s two-out blast connected a first-pitch slider from reliever Daniel Hudson turned the Yankees’ one-run shortage into a 5-2 lead, earning an eruption from a sellout assemblage of 49,354 that had been begging for a crushed to explode.

It was the benignant of game-shifting deed that mostly eluded the Yankees successful their losses successful Games 1 done 3.

The slam served arsenic a full-circle infinitesimal for the 23-year-old Volpe, who grew up a Yankees fan connected the Upper East Side and successful Northern New Jersey. He attended the Yankees’ 2009 title parade and went to aggregate playoff games successful the Bronx earlier the squad made him a first-round draught prime successful 2019.

“I grew up a fan, truthful what makes the Yankees the Yankees is winning, and winning a World Series,” Volpe said earlier the ALCS. “For me, that was ever the standard.”

It was the archetypal playoff location tally for Volpe, a second-year shortstop competing successful his archetypal MLB postseason. He deed it with erstwhile Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, present a Fox analyst, successful the building.

And the Yankees needed it.

They trailed, 2-0, aft rookie starter Luis Gil surrendered a two-run location tally successful the archetypal inning to Freddie Freeman, the newest Yankee killer.

Despite severely spraining his close ankle conscionable implicit a period ago, Freeman has homered successful each crippled of this World Series, including with his walk-off expansive slam successful the 10th inning of Game 1 astatine Dodger Stadium.

The 26-year-old Gil ended up allowing 4 runs implicit four-plus innings, striking retired one, but helium held the loaded Los Angeles lineup scoreless successful the second, 3rd and 4th innings, allowing the Yankees to get backmost into the game.

The Dodgers, meanwhile, deployed a bullpen game, the effect of an injury-ravaged rotation that’s featured lone 3 starting pitchers each postseason.

The Yankees managed 1 tally against the Dodgers’ archetypal reliever, rookie Ben Casparius, connected an RBI groundout by Alex Verdugo successful the bottommost of the second.

All 4 runs that scored connected Volpe’s slam successful the adjacent inning were charged to Hudson.

In the bottommost of the sixth, with the pb chopped to 1 run, Austin Wells slugged a solo changeable against Landon Knack to enactment the Yankees up, 6-4.

And the Yankees piled connected against Brent Honeywell with a five-run eighth inning, during which Gleyber Torres struck a three-run location tally and Aaron Judge added a run-scoring azygous for his archetypal RBI of the World Series.

The Yankees’ violative output successful Game 4 exceeded the 7 runs they totaled successful Games 1 done 3.

Tuesday night’s superior bullpen belonged to the Yankees, who got 5 scoreless innings from relievers Tim Hill, Clay Holmes, Mark Leiter Jr., Luke Weaver and Tim Mayza.

The Yankees inactive look an unprecedented uphill ascent to travel each the mode backmost from a 3-0 bid deficit, which nary squad successful MLB past has done successful the World Series. The lone lawsuit of a 3-0 comeback successful immoderate best-of-seven bid remains the 2004 ALCS, erstwhile the Red Sox achieved the improbable feat against the Yankees.

But Tuesday’s triumph brought the Yankees 1 measurement closer.

The Yankees purpose to widen the bid again connected Wednesday nighttime successful the Bronx, wherever ace Gerrit Cole is acceptable to commencement Game 5 aft limiting Los Angeles to 1 tally implicit six-plus innings successful Game 1. Jack Flaherty, who held the Yankees to 2 runs successful 5.1 innings successful Game 1, is scheduled to commencement Wednesday for the Dodgers.

“There’s a batch of shot near to beryllium played,” Cole said a fewer hours earlier Game 4, “and thing tin happen.”