While the Juan Soto go-ahead home run in Game 5 will be rightly remembered as one of the biggest home runs in Yankees postseason history, Stanton's two-run tator should not be forgotten.
You could also speculate that Stanton baited the fatal pitch by swinging feebly at the first two sliders in the dirt as the broadcast did. Whatever the case may be, that middling slider by Erik Sabrowski was nowhere near enough to get Stanton out.
Stanton only had one of the top ten most impactful plays this series in terms of Baseball Reference's Win Probability Added, his homer off of Clase in Game 3, which redefined the team's lineup strategy.
Giancarlo Stanton, despite a .222 average, undeniably impacted the series with four home runs, emphasizing that sometimes, baseball's essence lies in hitting the ball hard and far.
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