Tall baseball boy Luke Voit is the not so secret weapon of the Yankees

Luke Voit is a meaty boy from the American Midwest who can not or will not wear his jersey all the time and whose grandmother sends him another $ 25 he hits for each of his circuits and there have been a lot of Nana's $ 25 checks in the last two months.

Voit did not qualify for Wednesday night Yankees 7-2 win over A in wild card game – Nana can put away her checkbook – but thought he had it for a second. He broke the wall for a triple in two sets which allowed the match to score 5-0 and seal the match. See admired her shooting out of the box and even raised one arm. He later stated that his teammates made fun of him for leading the player who was not in a match where the other Yankees dingers, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, were both without no doubt moonshots. "But I had my first triple," said Voit.

Voit 'first career treble (he is, let's say, not fast) has been hard won. He was the first hitter to face Blake Treinen, Oakland's closest star coach, called by Bob Melvin much earlier than expected, but the situation was as tough as it was going to be. There is clearly a book on Voit, Treinen threw him eight consecutive shots, all in the 90s and all but the first two inside, in order to prevent Voit from taking the lead. ;expansion. But Voit's attitude is a little shorter than that of many powerful batters and, although clearly outclassed by both sailors, he has managed to repeatedly hit Treinen and keep the attacker alive.

Much of the pitcher-hitter confrontation is a guessing game. But these are enlightened assumptions. Treinein thought that Voit was so determined to protect the inside of the plate against the fastballs that in the ninth step, he was offering a brittle ball, a slider, in the center. Voit's bat was fast enough to move around and almost out of the park in the other direction.

A throw later, Voit scored on a sacrificial volley to bring the score to 6-0. And believe me, he did it do not sign up for all of this while running.

"When Didi hit the bag, my legs burned (triple) and my lungs were hot from screaming and screaming," said Voit laughing. "It was amazing."

Every successful team has a guy like that …Max Muncy ??– and some teams seem to have more than their fair share, players who do not come out of nowhere and are in the red for a month or a season. Sees, Shane Spencer's winner of this year's Yankees Kevin Maas Memorial Award (presented by Shelley Duncan), was acquired in July from the Cardinals. The Yankees had a white hole in first-base formation, and they thought that Voit – 27, a major league player since his MLB debut last season – had an "edge".

Here is what the positive side looks like. Voit currently beats 333 / .405 / .689 with 14 homers in 39 games for New York, and in September he qualified for the AL's fourth best place. He kept the Yankees order dreadful even in the absences of Judge Gary Sanchez and Didi Gregorius due to an injury. He likes it; He called his playoff debut "almost like a Christmas morning thing".

Voit Christmas involves a lot of alcohol. In a festive locker room, he was by far the biggest target for vaporized champagne (and he's a big target to start with). Give him more. He wants everything. "I want it so much," he says, "as much wood as I can, and I'm having a lot of fun."