 with his smash that broke a scoreless tie last night Anthony Rizzo became the 38th player in Yankees history to go deep in their first game with the club Rizzo is also the sixth to do so since the beginning of the 2016 season and the first since John Carlos Denton went deep twice on opening day of 2018. We head into the cage now where Rizzo is getting ready for tonight's ball game following his debut Rizzo talked about how his goal is to grind out at bats forcing opposing pitchers to work so hard that it makes things easier for his teammates sitting behind him. The Yankees were already among the MLB leaders in pitches seen for at bat before Rizzo and Gallo were brought in so they should be even better in that category moving forward. As we thank you for coming back with us on VPTV Gallo and Rizzo are two of ten all-stars who were moved during the trade deadline season. It was a frenzy around the majors but Brian Cashman made sure the Yankees addressed some needs and after the dust settled yesterday he talked about those big acquisitions. Gallo I've been trying to get for quite some time. I thought we were close in spring training in March to Gallo. It didn't happen and so he's been someone we've been you know checking in on and trying to acquire for quite some time because we thought it'd be a nice fit. You know Rizzo obviously developed here in the more recent circumstances you know so in the last you know week I can't tell you what point I checked in with Jed Hoyer but as we're you know circling through all available players you know clearly we have a position that you know in Luke Voight is was coming back but he's been hurt all year so we just felt this was an opportunity that that made a lot of sense for us and we could make it work if if we found the right player package that we could live with. You know the Cubs obviously you know we're willing to pay the salaries so I see for instance you know you know they paid that's biased down they were going to pay obviously Rizzo down I don't know what they do with Brian going to San Francisco but but that was not going to be an issue and so it just came down to if we could tolerate the the prospect value you know it was something we had to determine whether it was it something that a improved us we felt without a doubt it would and then be even though we have the position filled is that something we should walk away from and the answer was no it was not we were excited to have Rizzo we're sorry about obviously Luke Voight season away it's gone thus far but obviously we have a two month sprint now to try to to push ourselves into the postseason and take a shot at the ultimate prize that we can you know we can do some damage and get back into this thing and I mean we're right there on the brink of a postseason wildcard but you know we got to obviously push through and then and then there's a division that we can try to take a take a shot at if we can get ourselves that in a much better position than we are right now but first things first we just got to win as many big games as we possibly can over the next two months