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 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.

“Good,” a smiling Grisham, always short and to the point, said of the way his swing felt. But then the outfielder explained why he enjoys being thrown into situations like the one that won the game for the Yankees on Saturday.

“I like feeling calm,” Grisham said. “I like to know that it’s the biggest moment of the game, and just the slowness feeling that I feel in the box. I mean, that’s the funnest part for me.”

While Grisham felt like his typically chill self before the grand slam, Anthony Volpe called the jack “electric.” Aaron Boone, meanwhile, praised the outfielder’s production this season, as Grisham now has 17 homers after hardly playing last year.

“He’s such a good player,” Boone said. “He’s been huge for us. You trust him in big spots to have a real quality at-bat, regardless of result.”

Volpe, on the other hand, hasn’t earned that trust lately. Yet he also played an integral part in the comeback victory, logging the first two-homer game of his career.

“Just to feel like you contributed and helped the team in a game like tonight, it feels really good,” Volpe said.

His first jack got 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 and marked a triumphant moment for a player whose entire game has been criticized for weeks.

“I go through the team, so when we win, I’m happy. When we lose, I’m not,” Volpe said when asked if the noise gets to him. “So anything other than that, I know what I gotta do. I have high standards for myself, and any of the stuff on the outside doesn’t even come close to the standard I hold myself to.”

Long balls hurt the Yankees prior to Volpe’s, as Michael Harris II — one of the worst hitters in baseball — 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 doubled anyway.

Warren, who allowed five earned runs over 3.2 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.

“I didn’t get over, and they get an extra run out of it,” Warren said, taking responsibility. “So definitely frustrating.”

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.

“Today was a huge win and hopefully a momentum switch in our favor to just re-believe that this is who we are, this is what we can do on a daily basis and just gain control of that dog mentality,” Weaver said after recording five outs, as they Yankees had previously lost 19 of their last 30 games.

Added Grisham: “It just shows and encourages everybody that we’re in every game. I know we have a lot of fight, so I think it’s big for us going forward knowing no matter what game we get in down the stretch, that we’re in it.”

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.

“We got a chance to win a series tomorrow,” Boone said, “and we gotta start playing better, period.”

Originally Published: July 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM EDT