Giancarlo Stanton joins Babe Ruth on epic take partoff enumerate to lift Yankees over Royals in ALDS Game 3

Giancarlo Stanton has established himself as one of the New York Yankees’ best postseason hitters in up-to-date history. With a game-triumphning home run agetst the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night, Stanton helped lift the Yankees to a 2-1 series guide in American League Division Series. 

Stanton also lifted himself into an exclusive postseason hitting catebloody with the franchise’s most iconic take parter. Stanton’s solo home run in the eighth inning that gave the Yankees a 3-2 guide labeled his 12th nurtureer postseason homer, in equitable 108 at-bats. That gave Stanton a nurtureer postseason at-bat per home run ratio of 9.4. It is the second-best in MLB history, equitable below Yankees legfinish Babe Ruth who has the best ratio at 8.6. Stanton and Ruth are the only two take parters with a ratio drop than 10. 

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“It’s the hugegest moments, you got to be ready for it, you got to want it,” Stanton shelp after the game about how he has hit so well in the take partoffs. “You’re not always going to be accomplished, but you can’t be shocked in the huge moments.”

However, all of Ruth’s postseason homers occurred in the World Series, as it was the only postseason series when he take parted in the 1920s and 30s. All of Stanton’s postseason home runs have come in earlier rounds, as the Yankees haven’t accomplished the World Series yet with him on the team. 

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Stanton finished the game with three hits, two RBI a run scored and even a unwidespread stolen base. When Stanton stole second base in the sixth inning, it labeled his first stolen base of the season and his first since August of 2020. 

“He wasn’t helderlying me on, and he was sluggish to the ptardy,” Stanton shelp of how he stole the base off of Royals pitcher John Schreiber. 

Meanwhile, fellow Yankees star slugger and captain Aaron Judge finished the game 0-for-4 with a strikeout to transport his 2024 postseason batting unrelabelable down to .091. Judge now owns the worst strikeout rate in MLB postseason history with 34.3%. 

Now, with a 2-1 series guide, the Yankees are equitable one triumph away from eliminating Kansas City and advancing to the American League Championship Series. 

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New York’s ace pitcher Gerrit Cole is set to consent the mound in Game 4 on Thursday as the Yankees will see to shut out the series without having to return home to take part Game 5. 

If the Yankees do finish up triumphning on Thursday, they will have home-field advantage in the championship series for the first time since 2012. 

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