All eyes are on Anthony Volpe during Yankees Spring Training because of his No. 1 organizational prospect status – and he’s giving people a lot to watch, including a defensive inning Wednesday that was as fundamentally sound as it gets.
Volpe entered Wednesday’s Yankees-Nationals game at second base in the fifth inning and then moved to shortstop for the sixth, and as you’d expect, the ball found him right way. However, Volpe ended up with two assists and a putout in the inning, starting with range and ending up with smarts.
With a runner on first and no outs, Volpe was near second base in as close to a shift as you can get on a lefty batter these days – but he ranged well to his right (not his glove side mind you) to gobble up Alex Call’s grounder, and, while falling to his right, threw a strike to second to get the force out.
Two batters later, with runners on second and third and one out, Joey Meneses hit a grounder to short, where Volpe took advantage of bad baserunning by Luis Garcia and threw to third, starting a rundown that ended up in a 6-5-4-6 double play when Meneses also made a baserunning blunder and tried for second while Garcia was in the rundown.
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