Trent Grisham's grand slam, Anthony Volpe's 2 homers power Yankees' comeback victory vs. Braves

Gary Phillips, New York Daily News on Jul 19, 2025

Published in Baseball

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ATLANTA — The Yankees won a wild — and at times sloppy — game on Saturday, defeating the Braves, 12-9, after Trent Grisham demolished a two-out grand slam in the ninth inning at Truist Park.

Grisham’s go-ahead bomb broke an 8-8 tie at the end of a chaotic contest. The homer, the outfielder’s 17th of the year, came against Raisel Iglesias, who hung a 1-1 slider over the heart of the plate, dooming a Braves squad that spent most of the night in the lead.

Anthony Volpe also played an integral part in the comeback victory, logging the first two-homer game of his career.

His first jack put the Yankees on the board in the fifth, as he snapped a 12-for-100 slump with a two-run shot off Wander Suero. That put the Yankees down, 7-2. Volpe added a deep sac fly in the sixth inning, contributing to a four-run frame, before taking Dylan Lee deep in the eighth inning.

The second homer, Volpe’s 12th of the year, tied the game at eight.

Long balls hurt the Yankees prior to Volpe’s, as Michael Harris II — one of the worst hitters in baseball this season — crushed one off Will Warren to start the scoring in the third. Warren then surrendered Ozzie Albies’ second three-run homer in as many days in the fourth.

Albies’ homer came with two outs and followed a walk, as well as a double off the right field wall from Drake Baldwin. The two-bagger saw Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. move toward the outfield for a cutoff throw from Aaron Judge. No one covered second as Judge fired in, though Baldwin likely would have had a double anyway.

Warren, who allowed five earned runs over 3 2/3 innings, saw his night end shortly thereafter when the Braves scored from second on a Nick Allen infield single. Warren got off the mound slowly on the 69.5-mph knock, giving the Yankees no shot at recording an out at first. Still, Paul Goldschmidt tossed to the pitcher at first as Nacho Alvarez Jr. raced home.

The Braves scored two more runs in the fifth, as a wild pitch from Scott Effross preceded a two-run single from Albies.

Fortunately for the Bombers, Volpe and Grisham had some offensive help from their peers and the Braves’ bullpen in the sixth, as Enyel De Los Santos, a trade deadline bust for the Yankees last year, walked the bases loaded with the Braves up 7-2 and nobody out before Chisholm picked up an RBI single.

With Rafael Montero in, Matt Olson then bobbled a potential double-play ball off Grisham’s bat, leading to another Yankees run before Volpe’s sac fly. An Austin Wells groundout cut the deficit to one.

Then the Braves parlayed a two-out walk and a wild pitch from Jonathan Loáisiga into an RBI single from Olson before Cody Bellinger made it a one-run game again with a bases-empty blast in the seventh.

With Luke Weaver pulling off a Houdini act in relief of Loáisiga in the seventh, stranding the bases loaded, Volpe then knotted the game before Grisham put it to bed, though the Braves did get a run off Devin Williams in the ninth.

With the Yankees tying the series, the second-place club is now 54-44 on the season. They will try to leave Atlanta with another win on Sunday before flying to Toronto for another showdown with the division-leading Blue Jays.

Marcus Stroman will take the mound for the Yankees in the finale, while Grant Holmes will start for the Braves.