New York’s slugger delivered the go-ahead home run in Game 3, but it was a surprise moment that caught his teammates’ attention in a 3–2 victory over Kansas City.
Even with the pitch clock, a baseball game can be a plodding affair, so you’ll have to forgive Juan Soto if, in the sixth inning of this one, he took his eyes off the action for a moment. He was leaning against the dugout rail, his New York Yankees on their way to a 3–2 victory over the Kansas City Royals to pull within a win of the American League Championship Series, and Anthony Volpe had just taken a sinker down the middle to run the count to 2–1.
On Wednesday, he drove in the Yankees’ first run with a fourth-inning double. He gave them the go-ahead run with a 417-foot home run in the eighth. But after it was over, his teammates wanted to talk about his sixth-inning stolen base, the first one he had even attempted since 2020. “I expected a big day from him,” says third baseman Jazz Chisholm. Did he expect the steal? “No,” he says. “It was a surprise to all of us. But I’m happy he did it.”
When he is healthy, he demolishes the ball. Since Statcast began tracking such things in 2015, 24 balls have left bats at 120 mph or more. Stanton has hit 16 of them. So in an attempt to keep himself in the lineup, Stanton has begun basically strolling around the bases. That strategy puts him at risk of being thrown out at first on a line drive to the outfield, but he hits the ball over the fence often enough to make it worth it.
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