Kendrick was 0-for-4 in the game and had had a difficult division series, going 4-for-19 (.211), making a baserunning error in Game 3, hitting into a rally-killing double play in Game 4, and committing three errors in the field, two of them in Game 1 and one earlier in Game 5, but after fouling off Kelly's first pitch he hit Kelly's second one 410 feet over the wall in dead center field for his second career grand slam.