Giancarlo Stanton joins Babe Ruth on epic playoff list to lift Yankees over Royals in ALDS Game 3

Giancarlo Stanton has established himself arsenic 1 of the New York Yankees' champion postseason hitters successful modern history. With a game-winning location tally against the Kansas City Royals connected Wednesday night, Stanton helped assistance the Yankees to a 2-1 bid pb successful American League Division Series. 

Stanton besides lifted himself into an exclusive postseason hitting class with the franchise's astir iconic player. Stanton's solo location tally successful the eighth inning that gave the Yankees a 3-2 pb marked his 12th vocation postseason homer, successful conscionable 108 at-bats. That gave Stanton a vocation postseason at-bat per location tally ratio of 9.4. It is the second-best successful MLB history, conscionable beneath Yankees fable Babe Ruth who has the champion ratio astatine 8.6. Stanton and Ruth are the lone 2 players with a ratio little than 10. 

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New York Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton (27) hits a azygous successful the sixth inning against the Kansas City Royals during crippled 3 of the NLDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs astatine Kauffman Stadium. (Jay Biggerstaff -Imagn Images)

"It's the biggest moments, you got to beryllium acceptable for it, you got to privation it," Stanton said aft the crippled astir however helium has deed truthful good successful the playoffs. "You're not ever going to beryllium successful, but you can't beryllium shocked successful the large moments."

However, each of Ruth's postseason homers occurred successful the World Series, arsenic it was the lone postseason bid erstwhile helium played successful the 1920s and 30s. All of Stanton's postseason location runs person travel successful earlier rounds, arsenic the Yankees haven't reached the World Series yet with him connected the team. 

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Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the New York Yankees looks connected during Game 1 of the ALCS betwixt the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros astatine Minute Maid Park connected Wednesday, October 9, 2022 successful Houston, Texas.  (Logan Riely/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Stanton finished the crippled with 3 hits, 2 RBI a tally scored and adjacent a uncommon stolen base. When Stanton stole 2nd basal successful the sixth inning, it marked his archetypal stolen basal of the play and his archetypal since August of 2020. 

"He wasn't holding maine on, and helium was dilatory to the plate," Stanton said of however helium stole the basal disconnected of Royals pitcher John Schreiber. 

Meanwhile, chap Yankees prima slugger and skipper Aaron Judge finished the crippled 0-for-4 with a strikeout to bring his 2024 postseason batting mean down to .091. Judge present owns the worst strikeout complaint successful MLB postseason past with 34.3%. 

Now, with a 2-1 bid lead, the Yankees are conscionable 1 triumph distant from eliminating Kansas City and advancing to the American League Championship Series. 

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New York's ace pitcher Gerrit Cole is acceptable to instrumentality the mound successful Game 4 connected Thursday arsenic the Yankees volition look to adjacent retired the bid without having to instrumentality location to play Game 5. 

If the Yankees bash extremity up winning connected Thursday, they volition person home-field vantage successful the title bid for the archetypal clip since 2012. 

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