Yankees Edge Royals: Stanton's Key Plays Seal Victory
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00:00The Yankees beat the Royals last night, as we mentioned, 3-2.
00:08They can wrap it up tonight in Kansas City at Kauffman.
00:12Here you go, Giancarlo Stanton, who I told you earlier, 12 homers now in 30 postseason
00:18games for the Yankees.
00:19He had an RBI double, he had a stolen base, and he had this WFAN in New York.
00:24Now here's the 3-1 to Giancarlo, swing on, a high fly to left, that goes Melendez on
00:32the track, he's at the wall, and she's got a Stantonian homerun.
00:41He drove a high fly deep left into the Yankee bullpen to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead.
00:49Giancarlo, non si può scoparlo, and the Yankees now take the lead with 6 outs to go.
00:57Listen, first of all, it did not land in the bullpen.
01:01That ball was nowhere near the bullpen, John, as usual.
01:05It was up on the cement by the fans getting beer.
01:09It was 10 rows north of the bullpen.
01:14It was well beyond.
01:16It was closer to the fountain than it was the bullpen.
01:20I'll give him this.
01:22It was fun to hear him do the end of the game.
01:24And I'll give you this, he was better than Bob Gostas.
01:28You know what?
01:30He was.
01:31He had a few months off.
01:32John, getting to go.
01:33And I did hear him say at the end of the game, we played it for me earlier, I guess at the
01:37end he said, Yankees take a 3-2 lead in the series.
01:39But they would think the score was 3-2.
01:41So I'm going to give him a pass with that one.
01:43Listen, he used to call pop-ups to the second baseman, home runs to the short porch.
01:49Stanton is now second all-time, that's all-time in postseason history, home runs per at-bats.
01:56The only person better than him, Babe Ruth, he's second on that list.
02:00Home runs per at-bat in the postseason.
02:03That's his name.
02:05All with the Yankees, by the way.
02:06He didn't play any playoff games with the Marlins.
02:08So all with the Yankees is what he has done there.
02:11He has been outstanding.
02:13Here he is talking about this is why he came to New York.
02:16And God, you wonder why he hit it above the bullpen.
02:19Look at the hammers on this dude.
02:22Here's Stanton.
02:23I mean, this is what I came here for.
02:25So, you know, not always going to be successful here.
02:29But, you know, you just got to keep working and put yourself in the best opportunity.
02:37You know what's funny is that he's right.
02:39Like he misses tons of time.
02:41He misses tons of games.
02:42He gets booed.
02:44He deals with the vicious media attacks on him.
02:48And then when October rolls around, he becomes Reggie Jackson.
02:52I mean, honestly, he passed Reggie Jackson last night with that home run.
02:57All-time for the Yankees.
03:00He is like, you know, you talk about Jeter.
03:05They called him Mr. November.
03:07Jeter never hit like this guy.
03:10That's just all there is to it.
03:11Jeter was a really good player.
03:13There's no denying how good he was.
03:16This guy, Stanton, his numbers are just crazy.
03:20I said this earlier.
03:21You're talking about he was literally like a tenth of a point behind Babe Ruth
03:26in every home run per at-bat.
03:29Like nine.
03:30He was literally nine-something to ten.
03:32And it's like by a fraction of a, you know, at-bat.
03:36Like every nine at-bats, the guy hits a home run in the postseason.
03:40Like that's bigger than Reggie Jackson.
03:42I mean, that's, you know, DiMaggio, Mantle, Ruth.
03:46It's crazy.