Taylor Swift helps motivate slumping Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo: ‘It’s her summer really’

Anthony Rizzo’s house plate troubles got here to an finish Sunday when he hit a house run to assist raise the New York Yankees8-5, over the Kansas Metropolis Royals, and evidently Taylor Swift might have performed a task in that.

Rizzo had not hit a house run since Might 20, however the first baseman’s uncommon drought got here to an finish within the third inning when he hit a bomb off of Royals starter Jordan Lyles.

“It’s simply sticking to a routine and tweaking, making little tweaks right here and there,” Rizzo mentioned after the sport.

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“This sport is such [about] really feel. You can take a thousand swings, and it may go the other method, and you’ll take three swings and really feel like miles and miles of success. So, it’s simply all a part of it.”

So, what was one of many “tweaks” that made all of it occur?

A Taylor Swift walk-up track.

Taylor Swift performs throughout The Eras Tour at Gillette Stadium on Might 20 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (TAS Rights Administration / Getty Pictures)

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“Taylor Swift, it’s her summer time actually,” Rizzo mentioned when requested by reporters about altering his track to Swift’s “…Prepared For It?”

“She’s serving to the economic system in each metropolis she goes. So, yeah, that was good.”

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Anthony Rizzo of the New York Yankees gestures to the dugout after a house run throughout a sport towards the Kansas Metropolis Royals at Yankee Stadium on July 23, 2023, in New York Metropolis. (New York Yankees/Getty Pictures)

Rizzo additionally hit an RBI double within the first and singled within the fifth earlier than capping a 10-pitch at-bat with a single within the eighth towards Scott Barlow. It was Rizzo’s fifteenth profession four-hit sport and first since Aug. 4, 2019.

The Related Press contributed to this report.