NEW YORK — Greater than six years after his ultimate sport of their uniform, Giancarlo Stanton simply stays the Marlins’ franchise chief in dwelling runs. Till Wednesday night, the slugger had by no means hit one towards them.
Stanton accomplished his set of homering towards all 30 Main League golf equipment, belting a sixth-inning dwelling run off reliever Bryan Hoeing at Yankee Stadium.
The blast reduce Miami’s result in 4-1 on the time. It was Stanton’s fourth homer of the 12 months and his third prior to now 5 video games, as he has discovered a groove after putting out 13 occasions in his first 25 at-bats of the season.
Not solely does Stanton proceed to carry the Marlins’ franchise dwelling run lead with 267, however much more remarkably, no Marlins participant has cumulatively equaled his 2017 tally of 59 dwelling runs since Stanton’s departure. Jazz Chisholm Jr. (55) trails Stanton by 4.
Stanton’s present-day teammate Juan Soto has homered towards 28 Main League golf equipment, needing to cross off solely the Angels and Rangers, every of whom the Yankees will play six occasions this season. Aaron Decide has additionally homered towards 28 groups, however he is clearly lacking the Yankees, together with the Cardinals. Anthony Rizzo has gone deep towards 29 groups — however he, too, is lacking the Yanks.
