<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/yankees-news-giancarlo-stanton-reaches-babe-ruth-territory-after-439-foot-blast-vs-guardians');   ga('set', 'title', 'Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton reaches Babe Ruth territory after 439-foot blast vs. Guardians');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Yankees-news-Giancarlo-Stanton-reaches-Babe-Ruth-territory-after-439-foot-blast-vs.-Guardians.jpg"></figure><h1>Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton reaches Babe Ruth territory after 439-foot blast vs. Guardians</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-14T20:46:58-07:00">October 14th, 8:46pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-14T20:46:58-07:00">October 14th, 8:46pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Yankees could not have asked for a much better start to life in the ALCS following their 5-2 win in Game 1 over the Cleveland Guardians. It was the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/guardians-news-joey-cantillo-mlb-record-game-1-yankees">Yankees’ big guns</a> that drove in their five runs; Aaron Judge drove in a run with a sacrifice fly while Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton both went yard to give New York a lead that they would not relinquish.</p><p>Stanton’s blast, in particular, was an outright moonshot. He punished a 93-mph fastball from Erik Sabrowski that was hanging in the middle of the strike zone and launched it to left-center field for <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1846009082752205072" rel="noopener">a 439-foot blast</a> to give the Yankees a 5-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Giancarlo Stanton LAUNCHES a 439-foot blast! ☄️</p><p>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MLB</a>)<a href="https://t.co/v8UXDls43X">pic.twitter.com/v8UXDls43X</a></p><p>— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1846009082752205072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>This home run was Stanton’s 13th in 32 playoff games for the Yankees, per Katie Sharp of Talkin’ Yanks, which puts the veteran slugger in esteemed franchise history. According to Sharp, no other Yankees player has hit 13 long balls in any 32-playoff game span apart from Babe Ruth and Stanton, which is an <a href="https://x.com/SharpStats17/status/1846013678413296013" rel="noopener">extremely exclusive club</a> to say the least.</p><h2><b>Giancarlo Stanton is an October monster for the Yankees</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Yankees-designated-hitter-Giancarlo-Stanton-27-hits-a-solo-home-run.jpg"></figure><p>Giancarlo Stanton may have had to wait until his ninth professional season before getting a taste of playoff baseball, but it has been well worth the wait for him. After hitting another home run during the Yankees’ 5-2 Game 1 win over the Guardians, Stanton’s career playoff OPS is now <a href="https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/giancarlo-stanton-playoff-stats" rel="noopener">up to 1.009</a> — dwarfing his regular-season production over the same span (.806 OPS since 2018).</p><p>Stanton’s has battled injury problems over the past few years, and his production has fallen off a cliff relative to his heyday. He still has plenty of raw power at his disposal, but he has been very inconsistent for the Yankees amid his decline.</p><p>Nevertheless, Stanton appears to reserve his best for when the lights are at their brightest. He has been on a heater for the Yankees in this year’s playoffs, and it doesn’t seem like he’s on the cusp of slowing down anytime soon. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-giancarlo-stanton-issues-demand-after-game-3-win-royals">His October emergence</a> has made getting through the Yankees’ heart of the order an even more daunting task.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton reaches Babe Ruth territory after 439-foot blast vs. Guardians

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/yankees-news-giancarlo-stanton-truth-bomb-first-stolen-base-4-years');   ga('set', 'title', 'Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton drops truth bomb on first stolen base in 4 years');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Giancarlo-Stanton-drops-truth-bomb-on-first-stolen-base-in-4-years.jpg"></figure><h1>Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton drops truth bomb on first stolen base in 4 years</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-10T07:02:00-07:00">October 10th, 7:02am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-10T07:02:00-07:00">October 10th, 7:02am</time><address><a>Christopher Hennessy</a>Christopher Hennessy graduated with a journalism degree from Fordham University in 2022. He has also worked at Spectrum News One in Albany, New York and with The Hockey Writers as a New York Islanders writer. Chris is originally from Connecticut and is a lifelong New York Yankees, Islanders, and Jets fan.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Yankees won <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-giancarlo-stanton-issues-demand-after-game-3-win-royals">Game 3 of the ALDS because of Giancarlo Stanton’s bat</a>. He hit an RBI double and a home run to lift the team to victory. Stanton also picked up a stolen base, his first since 2020. The dugout exploded and even though he didn’t score, it was a big lift for the team. He <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41708632/giancarlo-stanton-hits-go-ahead-homer-yankees-win-game-3-alds-vs-royals" rel="noopener">spoke with</a> ESPN’s Jeff Passan about the unlikely steal.</p><p>“Probably better than the homer, to be honest,” Stanton said.</p><p>While it did not have an impact on the final score, the stolen base did change the vibe in the dugout. The tense game continued after that and the bullpen shut down the Royals, leaving the door open for Stanton. He smoked a no-doubt home run in the eighth inning to take a 3-2 lead that Luke Weaver saved.</p><p>While Stanton has caught the ire of Yankees fans in his tenure, he has been excellent in the playoffs. He has a .964 OPS in 30 postseason games, all with New York. It began in 2018 when he hit a home run in the Wild Card Game against the Athletics. He was solid in the 2019 ALCS before he got hurt, dominated in the 2020 Division Series, and went 3-4 in the 2021 Wild Card game.</p><p>This was the biggest homer of Stanton’s postseason career and can change the Yankees’ postseason outlook.</p><h2><b>Yankees’ postseason hopes ride on Giancarlo Stanton</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Giancarlo-Stanton-steals-second-base.jpg"><figcaption>Peter Aiken-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>The Yankees are one win away from the ALCS despite not looking like the offensive juggernaut they were for most of the season. That’s because Aaron Judge has been held to just one hit in the series. His infield single was not the home run that many are used to seeing and it has cost the Bombers. They must get a better performance out of their captain.</p><p>Stanton’s emergence has helped the Yankees stay in this series and now take the lead. Juan Soto and Anthony Volpe have been solid offensively as well, but nothing like Stanton. The team will be nearly unstoppable if Stanton and Judge get rolling at the same time and there is no better time for that to start than Thursday night.</p><p>The Yankees have a chance to close out the Kansas City Royals on the road on Thursday night. They have their ace Gerrit Cole pitching and a<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-gerrit-cole-discovers-game-4-pitching-opponent-vs-royals"> favorable matchup against righty Michael Wacha</a>. It’s favorable for everyone besides Judge, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sports/baseball/yankees-verge-ousting-royals-despite-aaron-judges-quiet-bat-2024-10-10/#:~:text=Judge%20was%20hitless%20in%20two,%22He's%20an%20unbelievable%20player." rel="noopener">who is</a> 1-20 in his career against Wacha.</p><p>Game 4 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Royals begins at 8:07 on Thursday night. If the Royals win, Game 5 will be back in The Bronx on Saturday.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton drops truth bomb on first stolen base in 4 years

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He is a diehard Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Rutgers, and Tottenham Hotspur fan. When Joshua is not either watching a game or writing about one, you can find him in an art-house movie theater or working on a screenplay.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-vs-royals-alds-game-3-prediction-odds-pick">Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals</a> 3-2 in a crucial Game 3 ALDS victory on Wednesday night. Designated hitter <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-fans-harsh-aaron-judge-take-giancarlo-stantons-hr-vs-royals">Giancarlo Stanton carried the team</a> offensively, producing three of its four hits, with a homer, two RBI, and a stolen base.</p><p>Stanton now has <a href="https://x.com/BryanHoch/status/1844206611617009979" rel="noopener">one request for his team</a>, via MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch.</p><p>“We need to wrap it up tomorrow,” Stanton said.</p><p>With the narrow victory at Kauffman Stadium, the Yankees are now up 2-1 in the series and can eliminate the Royals with a victory on Thursday night. Ace hurler Gerrit Cole is on the bump for New York, while right-hander Michael Wacha will start for Kansas City.</p><p>Stanton, who brought a .250/319/.596 slash line with 11 homers and 25 RBI in 29 playoff games for the Yankees prior to Wednesday night, spoke on his <a href="https://twitter.com/snyyankees/status/1844206855431549018" rel="noopener">penchant for October magic</a>, via SNY.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"This is what I came here for."</p><p>Giancarlo Stanton on his big performances in the postseason: <a href="https://t.co/PlWM5ogvNx">pic.twitter.com/PlWM5ogvNx</a></p><p>— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href="https://twitter.com/snyyankees/status/1844206855431549018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“This is what I came here for,” Stanton said. “You’re not always gonna be successful here, but you just gotta keep working and put yourself in the best opportunity.”</p><p>New York relied heavily on Stanton and its bullpen on Wednesday, which tossed 4.1 scoreless innings in relief of Clarke Schmidt.</p><p>Will the Yankees honor Stanton’s request?</p><h2><b>Yankees can’t rely solely on Giancarlo Stanton</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Giancarlo-Stanton-rounds-third-base.jpg"><figcaption>Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>While New York got bailed out by Stanton and its bullpen in Game 3, it’s not a long-term formula for success. The safest path to victory on Thursday is a balanced offensive effort, with Cole pitching deep into the game.</p><p>Team captain and superstar Aaron Judge needs a big playoff game at some point. Through the first three games, the AL single-season home run record-holder has just one hit and one run scored. The Yankees can ill-afford a slump from him at this time of year.</p><p>If Stanton continues playing this well, though, he could get himself enshrined in Monument Park.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton issues immediate demand after Game 3 win vs. Royals

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/yankees-news-fans-harsh-aaron-judge-take-giancarlo-stantons-hr-vs-royals');   ga('set', 'title', 'Yankees fans make harsh Aaron Judge take after Giancarlo Stanton’s HR vs. Royals');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Yankees-news-Fans-make-harsh-Aaron-Judge-take-after-Giancarlo-Stantons-HR-vs.-Royals.jpg"></figure><h1>Yankees fans make harsh Aaron Judge take after Giancarlo Stanton’s HR vs. Royals</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-09T20:02:26-07:00">October 9th, 8:02pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-09T20:03:41-07:00">October 9th, 8:03pm</time><address><a>Michael Aaron Gomez</a>Michael Aaron Gomez is a creative writer and longtime NBA fan. He has been a fan of the Lakers since the three-peat but believes LeBron James is the greatest player of all time.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Yankees are now one win away from advancing to the ALCS after Giancarlo Stanton’s game-winning solo homer in Game 3 of their ALDS series versus the Kansas City Royals. Thanks to Stanton’s homer, the Yankees have overcome another game of their listless offense that has featured an anemic <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/did-yankees-aaron-judge-just-have-the-goat-right-handed-hitting-season">Aaron Judge, who’s had an extraordinary season</a>. Moreover, his struggles have even led some Yankees fans to turn on him in favor of the guy who beat the Royals in Game 3 of the ALDS.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">GIANCARLO STANTON WITH A GO-AHEAD HOME RUN IN THE 8TH INNING 🤯</p><p> <a href="https://t.co/B7HruUIU4c">pic.twitter.com/B7HruUIU4c</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1844190244440268972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>In the eighth inning, Stanton hit the go-ahead homer at Kauffman Stadium to give the Yankees a shot to close out the ALDS on the road in Game 4.</p><h2><b>ALDS Game 3: Yankees def. Royals, Yankees lead 2-1</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Giancarlo-Stanton-celebrating-with-Aaron-Judge.jpg"><figcaption>© Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Before Game 3 against the Royals, Yankees hitter Judge has only a single hit, an infield single in Game 2. Besides this hit, he has not contributed at all to the team’s offense, leaving Stanton to bail him out.</p><p>Fans have noticed Judge’s poor showing and commented accordingly.</p><p>First, user @JoshuaJamesNY suggested the Yankees outfielder should <a href="https://x.com/JoshuaJamesNY/status/1844191311433433468" rel="noopener">try a different career path</a>.</p><p>“At this point Judge should be handing out water to rest of team and fanning Stanton when he’s on the bench. Maybe rubbing [Tommy] Kahnle’s arm too,” he posted on X, formerly Twitter.</p><p>Next, the user @graham_piro uploaded a meme of Thanos, referring to Stanton’s heroics.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Giancarlo Stanton to Aaron Judge <a href="https://t.co/4il4vqGJCp">pic.twitter.com/4il4vqGJCp</a></p><p>— Graham Piro (@graham_piro) <a href="https://twitter.com/graham_piro/status/1844191307247612200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>This X user, named Larry, was blunt and called Judge a “<a href="https://x.com/33356xxx/status/1844191202184397101" rel="noopener">choke artist</a>” while calling Stanton “clutch.” Meanwhile, another user @VikFishTales <a href="https://x.com/VikFishTales/status/1844191186262827512" rel="noopener">agreed and said</a>, “Stanton &gt; Judge.”</p><p>Another user @TroofTellah <a href="https://x.com/TroofTellah/status/1844191132969992639" rel="noopener">agreed with both commenters</a> and joked, “LMFAO Stanton so much better than Shaaron Judge.”</p><p>Finally, @JCMF2424 chided Judge cheering on the sidelines for his teammate’s game-winning homer.</p><p>“Yeah Judge you better be pumped for [Giancarlo] Stanton, if this holds he saved your f**king ass,” the commenter said.</p><p>As recently as Game 2, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-aaron-judge-not-feeling-good-royals-series">Aaron Judge said he wasn’t “feeling good”</a> if he wasn’t making hits, marking a serious drop-off from his history-making regular season performance.</p><p>Besides Stanton, maybe he should also thank <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-jazz-chisholm-jr-says-royals-just-got-lucky-in-game-2">Jazz Chisholm, Jr., saying the Royals got lucky</a> in Game 2–maybe he needs some of <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-jazz-chisholm-jr-royals-luck-accusation">Chisholm’s confidence</a> to get out of this slump.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Yankees fans make harsh Aaron Judge take after Giancarlo Stanton’s HR vs. Royals

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/yankees-news-giancarlo-stanton-issues-strong-declaration-about-team-to-beat-in-the-playoffs');   ga('set', 'title', 'Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton issues strong declaration about ‘team to beat’ in the playoffs');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Giancarlo-Stanton-issues-strong-declaration-about-team-to-beat-in-the-playoffs.jpg"></figure><h1>Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton issues strong declaration about ‘team to beat’ in the playoffs</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-09-26T20:47:26-07:00">September 26th, 8:47pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-09-26T20:47:26-07:00">September 26th, 8:47pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>On Thursday night, the New York Yankees, after a season-long battle against the Baltimore Orioles for the AL East crown, have finally clinched the division title. And what better way to do so than to claim a victory against the Orioles, themselves, with the Yankees taking an emphatic 10-1 win over their division rival. There was a raucous celebration that took place among the Yankees players, and deservedly so, but they would know that the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-jazz-chisholm-jr-doesnt-shy-away-world-series-expectations-new-york">job is not finished</a>.</p><p>Giancarlo Stanton, in fact, wants the Yankees to be in the driver’s seat of their own World Series destiny. And that includes <a href="https://twitter.com/snyyankees/status/1839490777950417278" rel="noopener">being the team</a> that everyone must go through if they were to reach the mountaintop of the MLB.</p><p>“We better be [the team to beat in the playoffs.] That’s the point,” Stanton said amid the Yankees’ celebrations in the dugout, via SNY on X (formerly known as Twitter).</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Giancarlo Stanton was asked if he thinks the Yankees are the "team to beat" in the playoffs:</p><p>"We better be. That's the point." <a href="https://t.co/pS9Ybm1AVy">pic.twitter.com/pS9Ybm1AVy</a></p><p>— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href="https://twitter.com/snyyankees/status/1839490777950417278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>At present, the Yankees are in pole position when it comes to having home-field advantage in the American League. At 93-66, they have a one-game lead over the Cleveland Guardians for the best record in the AL. Regardless, the Yankees have shown that they can win wherever they are.</p><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-aaron-judge-home-run-new-york-playoffs">Yankees have played better on the road</a> than at home, surprisingly enough. They have gone just 43-35 in the friendly confines of Yankee Stadium, while they have been a stellar 50-31 away from home. Perhaps home-field advantage won’t matter as much with regards to them being the team to beat come postseason time.</p><p>All season long, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-aaron-judge-replicates-mlb-feat-last-done-babe-ruth-104-years-ago">Yankees have been</a> one of the best teams in the MLB, and a strong finish to the season gives them a comfortable victory over the Orioles for the AL East crown in the end. But they would know that winning the division does not guarantee success in the postseason. In 2022, the Yankees were the AL East champion, but they fell to the Houston Astros in the ALCS.</p><p>But this Yankees team feels very much like it is primed to make it deeper to the playoffs than they have in recent years. They have impressive depth on both the hitting and pitching side of the ball, which makes it so that Giancarlo Stanton may not be too far off in his assertions.</p><h2>The Yankees will receive bye to the ALDS</h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Giancarlo-Stanton.jpg"></figure><p>The new postseason format, which has the two best teams in each league getting a bye to the Division Series, hasn’t exactly been helpful to the top-seeded teams. In the NL, the two top-seeded teams in 2022 and 2023 exited in the DS, while the Orioles, as the best team in the AL last year, were swept by the eventual champion Texas Rangers.</p><p>Will this be a cause for concern for a Yankees team that’s been riding some good momentum as of late? Perhaps. But it will all depend on which team they match up against in the ALDS.</p><p>It’s looking likely that the Yankees line up alongside the Orioles’ side of the Wild Card bracket. If the season were to end today, the Orioles will be facing the Detroit Tigers in the Wild Card series. The Yankees would very much prefer to see the Tigers in the ALDS, as <a href="https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/yankees-record-vs-orioles-this-season" rel="noopener">they have gone 5-8</a> against Baltimore this season.</p><p>Nonetheless, if the Yankees truly are the team to beat, as Giancarlo Stanton wants them to be, then it <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/yankees-news-new-york-slapped-harsh-astros-reality-mlb-playoffs">should not matter which team they face</a> on their way to a potential World Series title.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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BA	HR	RBI	OPS	SB
.233	27	72	0.773	0

2024 SEASON STATS
BA	HR	RBI	OPS	SB
.233	27	72	0.773	0

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