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Mary Clarke

Anthony Rizzo had a hilarious reasoning for changing his walk-up song to Taylor Swift

This isn’t the first time Anthony Rizzo has used a Taylor Swift track as his walk-up song and given his performance, it probably won’t be the last!

On Sunday, the New York Yankees bested the Kansas City Royals 8-5. The win was a much-needed one, capping off a sweep of the Royals and getting the Yankees right back in the wild card hunt. A big part of the Yankees’ Sunday success was thanks to the bat of Rizzo, who went 4-for-4 on the day with a solo home run in the third inning.

Yankees beat reporters and fans, however, noticed Rizzo’s new walk-up song — “…Ready For It?” by Taylor Swift — that debuted earlier in the day. After his monster game, Rizzo had quite the hilarious explanation as to why he went with a song from Swift’s illustrious catalogue of music.

“Taylor Swift, it’s her summer, really. She’s helping the economy in every city she goes.”

Considering Swift is absolutely dominating the summer, I can’t argue with that reasoning! Plus, Rizzo snapped the longest home run drought of his career — his first long ball since May 20 — after the change, so I expect he’ll keep the song for a little while longer.

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