Anthony Volpe has facepalm moment with ABS system as first batter of minor league game

Anthony Volpe is successful a grind to get backmost to the large leagues, but his ABS show connected Wednesday won't assistance his cause.

The New York Yankees sent the shortstop to the insignificant leagues earlier this period to bring up apical shortstop imaginable George Lombard Jr., arsenic Volpe has ne'er rather deed the crushed moving arsenic a erstwhile apical imaginable himself.

Despite his struggles, Volpe had really induced a steadfast locomotion complaint successful his clip with the large league nine this season, but 1 would not deliberation that fixed his archetypal at-bat with Triple-A Scranton connected Wednesday.

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Anthony Volpe of the New York Yankees looks connected during a crippled against the Chicago Cubs astatine Wrigley Field connected Friday, July 31, 2026, successful Chicago. (George Gaza/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Volpe saw 3 consecutive balls to statesman the crippled and past took what helium thought was shot four. It was called a strike, but Volpe challenged the telephone successful hopes of getting connected archetypal basal — helium was wrong.

The adjacent transportation was an offspeed transportation that looked overmuch much retired of the portion than the 1 prior, but fixed what had conscionable occurred, helium did not privation to instrumentality the hazard of losing some challenges close astatine the commencement of the game.

Well, that's precisely what helium did connected the adjacent pitch, arsenic helium challenged onslaught 3 and was incorrect again.

So, the squad was retired of challenges aft conscionable 1 batter.

He made up for it with a triple aboriginal connected successful the night, but it was not capable successful the RailRiders' 11-3 nonaccomplishment to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

New York Yankees infielder Anthony Volpe (77) throws the shot implicit to archetypal basal during the outpouring grooming crippled betwixt the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays connected February 26, 2023, astatine the TD Ballpark successful Dunedin, FL. (Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Volpe has deed good since being demoted, hitting .304 (7-for-23) with a double, triple and homer. He has recorded astatine slightest 1 deed successful each of his 5 games since being sent down.

In the majors this year, helium was hitting .240 with a career-high .325 on-base percentage, but his .322 slugging percent was the worst of his career, arsenic he'd deed conscionable 1 location tally successful 56 games.

The aforementioned Lombard, meanwhile, is hitting .320 with a .953 OPS successful his archetypal 7 games arsenic a large leaguer and had the nonstop other ABS destiny arsenic Volpe a mates of nights ago, correctly challenging 2 strike-three calls to gully a walk.

Anthony Volpe of the New York Yankees throws his helmet during the seventh inning against the Minnesota Twins astatine Yankee Stadium connected July 4, 2026 successful New York City. (Caleb Bowlin/Getty Images)

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Volpe has been moving astatine 2nd basal since being sent to the minors, possibly showing the Yankees' manus for his aboriginal with the team.

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