Turns out the legend of Luke Voit wasn’t a one-month wonder.
The calendar flipped to October, the pressure turned up to full blast, and Voit was still Voit on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
The first baseman was quiet in his first two at-bats before cracking a two-run triple — the first of his career — in the sixth inning to give the Yankees some more breathing room in their 7-2 disposal of the A’s in the AL wild-card game.
“How crazy is this?” a champagne-drenched Voit said. “I’m just a Missouri boy, never thought I’d be playing for the Yankees and now I’m playing on the center stage of the world.