Anthony Volpe: 'I Blacked Out' After Grand Slam to Help Yankees Beat Dodgers in WS G4

New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe didn't know in the moment he had delivered the pivotal hit in his team's 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series.

"I didn't know. I was hustling," he said during Fox's postgame show. "I didn't know I got it, but, and then I blacked out right when it went out."

The 23-year-old put the Bronx Bombers ahead with a grand slam in the third.

It was quite the reversal of fortunes.

In the second inning, Volpe may have kept a run off the board when he failed to properly read the trajectory of Austin Wells' double to deep center. At the very least, Volpe could've easily scored, and Wells might've even had a triple if his teammate hadn't hesitated so much on the basepath.

That was all forgotten when the middle infielder cleared the fences.

Volpe capped off his performance by helping to manufacture another run in the eighth. He stretched a single into a double, stole third, and then came home on a fielder's choice.

For now, Volpe is the toast of New York. It's a storybook outcome for somebody who grew up in New Jersey rooting for the Yankees.

However, his heroics will be lost to history for the most part if New York winds up losing this World Series, which is one downside to playing for this franchise. By and large, Yankees players don't become October legends for almost winning it all.

Should the Yanks go on to lift their 28th title and achieve the impossible — no team has come back from a 3-0 deficit in the Fall Classic — then Volpe's grand slam will take on mythic proportions as the moment when the offense roared back to life.