If only it were true.

Anthony Volpe had two walks in 97 plate appearances in July.

Which I would have thought was impossible. Eduardo Nunez walked more often than that. Mariano Rivera walked more often than that in his limited plate appearances standing far away from home plate with a bat on his shoulder.

"[Trea Turner's] slash line before the ovation was .235/.290/.368, and he only had 10 home runs and 34 RBIs. Then, superfan Jon McCann came up with the idea to voice support for Turner instead of booing him.

So on Aug. 4 that year, Turner received a standing ovation — and it did wonders for the shortstop. 

After the ovation, Turner slashed .364/.398/.754 with 11 home runs and 31 RBIs."

It's a great idea and I'm sure it's going to work.

I'm pretty sure that there is nothing the fans can do and there's nothing the manager can do at this point.

Volpe is convinced that swinging hard is what he needs to do. He will sacrifice all aspects of his game for a decent amount of home runs.

Or maybe there is something the manager can do. Bench him every time he hits a home run and move him up in the batting order every time he successfully executes a sacrifice bunt.

Because Anthony Volpe isn't actually a grown up professional baseball player. He's a social experiment. Let's all participate in the social experiment of pondering what actions we can take to heal Anthony Volpe's damaged psyche.

Hey, I know.

Pretend the first baseman's chest is your greatest fear. Visualize it. Then the baseball is a healing baseball and the only way to banish your greatest fear is by striking it with the baseball. So throw the baseball really hard at the first baseman's chest.

As a bonus, throwing the ball to the first baseman's chest is totally a thing that shortstops regularly do. The baseball objective being throwing the batter out at first base.