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Four-panel full-color sports comic with cartoon ballplayers, not likenesses. Panel 1: early two-run home run fireworks at Yankee Stadium. Panel 2: three-hit night with a two-run single. Panel 3: grand slam clears the bases in the seventh for career-high five RBI. Panel 4: Yankees 10 Rockies 3 sweep scoreboard, within three of Tampa Bay.
Four panels: García’s early two-run HR, Jones’s two-run single, Volpe’s seventh-inning slam for 5 RBI, Yankees 10 Rockies 3 sweep. Cartoon ballplayers only. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: ESPN / AP.

Sports

Volpe’s grand slam on recall night powers Yankees’ 10–3 sweep of Rockies

What happened

The Associated Press box via ESPN from Thursday night at Yankee Stadium has Anthony Volpe hitting a grand slam and driving in a career-high five runs on the same day he was recalled from the minors, as the New York Yankees beat the Colorado Rockies 10–3 and completed a three-game sweep. Volpe’s slam came in a six-run seventh — not the third — after an RBI single earlier, and he finished with three hits and a stolen base while playing second base with Jazz Chisholm Jr. on the 10-day injured list. Luis García Jr. launched an early two-run homer, and rookie Spencer Jones had three hits including a two-run single. Kyle Karros answered with a homer for Colorado.

New York moved within three games of Tampa Bay atop the AL East and 4½ games ahead of Boston for the first American League wild card with 16 games to play. That is the whole Sports filing: a recall night, a seventh-inning slam, a sweep scoreboard, and the standings gap. Cartoon ballplayers only — never likenesses of living athletes. Bright navy and pinstripe under stadium lights. White gutters. The ESPN/AP recap URL is the receipt.

September baseball rewards the nights that still move the standings. A career-high five-RBI return capped by a slam in the seventh is a clean Sports slot for a Friday filing. Skip farm-system speculation. Keep politics out of the dugout. Sports packages here are dated scoreboard comics. Readers get the inning, the score, the sweep, and the source — not a season retrospective, just one night’s AP wire.

Why it matters

A seventh-inning slam on recall night is the strip: early García two-run blast, Jones’s two-run single, Volpe’s bases-clearing seventh, final 10–3 sweep. Color on the short-porch fireworks and the scoreboard. White gutters. Readers get Volpe’s five RBI, the three-hit line, García’s early homer, Jones’s three hits, Karros’s Rockies answer, and the three-game / 4½-game standings math with 16 to play. Keep the source URL on the page.

Conclusion

Volpe’s seventh-inning grand slam and career-high five RBI on his recall night powered a 10–3 Yankees sweep of Colorado, leaving New York three back of Tampa Bay and 4½ ahead of Boston for the top wild card with 16 to play, per ESPN/AP. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401816883

Source: ESPN / AP