The Yankees finally won a World Series game the way they usually win games. That means they covered all the fancy plays with big hits – a trio of monster home runs, in fact. For one night at least they behaved like the Bronx bombers and all was well in the boroughs.

The question now is whether this can continue. Well, let's put aside the obvious that the odds against them continue to be much higher than Aaron Judge's current batting average, to list the positives and possibilities. And yes, there are some.

Even though the Dodgers still have a 3-1 lead in this World Series after the Yankees' 11-4 win and still generally feel like the better and fitter team, there are at least a few encouraging developments:

1. The additional players showed that they do not always have to rely on the “big three” batsmen.

Anthony Volpe, the fastest Yankee who, oddly enough, got just one base from second base when Austin Wells hit a double high off the center field wall, became the fourth-youngest player to hit a grand slam in the World Series. Wells later hit the second deck in right field. And Gleyber Torres tied things up with a late three-run throw.

2. The judge looked better. He added a run-scoring hit to earn the win and reached base two more times – on a walk and a hit by pitch. The best hitter in baseball could be back.

3. The Yankees' bullpen bested the consensus best bullpen this postseason, holding this stacked Dodgers lineup to one run over five innings. (Of course, Yankees manager Aaron Boone, knowing it was an elimination game, ran hard at Luke Weaver and brought him into the seventh, while Dodgers manager Dave Roberts saved his best relievers.)

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4. The Yankees played decent defense and made no mistakes, with Volpe, the hero of the day, making a nice backhander on a tough one-hopper off Max Muncy's bat.

5. The Dodgers ultimately looked fallible as they kept getting outrun and made the only mistake of the game.

6. Shohei Ohtani, the greatest player in the world and perhaps ever, continued to look slightly injured three days after suffering a left shoulder subluxation. It's amazing he plays at all, but he seems to prefer the bad shoulder. Of course, Ohtani is probably still a world-beater at 60 percent.

It won't be easy, but with the win the Yankees have improved their situation from impossible.