Yankees break out with 11 runs, take Game 4 of World Series - ESPN

NEW YORK — To extend their season another day, the New York Yankees needed that big, momentum-shifting hit that eluded them over the first three games of the World Series. They got it on the brink of elimination Tuesday night in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium.

Anthony Volpe belted a go-ahead grand slam in the third inning, Austin Wells added a solo shot three innings later and Gleyber Torres put the finishing touches on an 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers with a three-run home run in the eighth inning as the Yankees avoided elimination for at least one night.

Volpe's breakthrough blast came on a first-pitch slider from Daniel Hudson, the second reliever the Dodgers deployed for their scheduled bullpen day, with two outs and Los Angeles leading 2-1. The grand slam, which landed a few rows beyond the wall in left field, electrified a sellout crowd that had been on edge after Freddie Freeman's two-run home run in the first inning.

It was Volpe's first career grand slam and the first by a Yankee since Tino Martinez in Game 1 of the 1998 World Series against the San Diego Padres. Volpe, at 23 years and 184 days old, became the youngest Yankee with a grand slam in the World Series since Mickey Mantle in 1953.

«I was hustling,» Volpe said. «I didn't know I got it. And then I blacked out.»

It was not a promising start for the Yankees. Freeman's home run — a laser over the short porch in right field off starter Luis Gil that extended the first baseman's home run streak in the World Series to a record six games — immediately deflated the crowd. It put the Yankees, who hadn't led since Freeman's walk-off grand slam in Game 1, in an early hole for the third straight game. But the Dodgers' reliever carousel could not hold the Yankees