Stanton homers twice as Yankees rebound with win over Cubs
NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton hit a mammoth homer within the first inning and added a two-run homer after a video overview within the fifth and the New York Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 Saturday.
Josh Donaldson hit his tenth homer and Harrison Bader hit a two-run double because the Yankees prevented their third four-game shedding streak this yr.
After being held to 2 singles in Friday’s sequence opener, the Yankees improved to 14-16 since shedding Aaron Judge to a torn ligament in his proper huge toe on June 3.
“Better across the board,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated.
Gerrit Cole (9-2) allowed a two-run homer to former Yankee Mike Tauchman on his ultimate batter and allowed three runs and 5 hits in 7 1/3 innings. He improved to 8-0 this season following a New York loss.
Struggling since returning June 2 from lacking almost two months with a hamstring damage, Stanton hit a 447-foot homer in opposition to Drew Smyly (7-6) off the going through of the third deck in left discipline to place New York forward 1-0.
“Over the years I got some pretty good ones but that one was nice,” stated Stanton, who later added he by no means hit a ball to the placement in batting observe.
It was Stanton’s eighth homer and fourth since coming again. It additionally was Stanton’s first homer within the Bronx since April 14 — the day earlier than he injured his hamstring whereas hitting a double.
“That was impressive,” Donaldson stated. “Obviously we all know he’s capable of that. That was nice to get the game started that way, kind of set the tone for us today.”
“He hit off the façade of the upper deck,” Boone added. “I’ve never seen a ball go up there. He hit it 118, that high to the direct pull side. It’s like you can’t make that up.”
According to Statcast, the homer had a 118.1 mph exit velocity, was Stanton’s hardest-hit ball this season and the third hardest-hit this yr behind Atlanta’s Matt Olson (118.6) and White Sox slugger Jake Burger (118.2).
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Cole stated. “He’s a strong man, a very, very good strong man. It’s a good jolt for us. We love seeing him have success. He works so hard.”
It was Stanton’s second-longest homer behind a 485-foot drive off San Francisco’s Ross Stripling on April 2.
“Stanton is a massive human being,” Smyly stated. “You feel like if you throw it in the strike zone, you are putting it on a tee.”
Stanton homered once more within the fifth, however this time he lined a pitch from reliever Michael Rucker the other approach down the right-field line. The ball hit off the underside of the correct discipline foul pole and Stanton started his dwelling run trot earlier than stopping at third.
Following a short crew chief overview, the decision was overturned and Stanton was awarded his ninth homer.
“I saw it hit off the pole, but I don’t know how that works,” Stanton stated.
It was Stanton’s thirty sixth profession multi-homer recreation and the 322-foot drive gave him a multi-homer recreation for the primary time since May 12, 2022, in Chicago in opposition to the White Sox.
Stanton began in proper discipline for the eleventh time and reached base thrice, sandwiching a stroll across the dwelling runs. The huge day gave him 10 RBIs over his previous 11 video games.
Cole retired 16 of 17 hitters till Miles Mastrobuoni singled. Tauchman, who performed 141 video games for the Yankees from 2019 to 2021, chased Cole with a drive into the correct discipline bleachers.
Michael King obtained the ultimate 5 outs for his sixth save, ending it off when Bader made a diving catch on Yan Gomes’ sinking liner to heart discipline.
The Cubs misplaced for the ninth time in 13 video games and scored their first run off Cole on a groundout by Nico Hoerner within the third.
Smyly allowed 4 runs and 6 hits in 4 innings. Facing the Yankees for the primary time since 2016, the left-hander didn’t pitch past the fourth for the third straight begin.
STREAK STOPPED
Chicago OF Cody Bellinger went 0 for 4 and had a career-high 13-game hitting streak stopped.
He hit 4 fly balls, together with one to the warning monitor in heart discipline within the ninth in opposition to King.
During the streak, Bellinger batted .479 (23-for-48).
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: Shortstop Dansby Swanson was positioned on the 10-day injured checklist due to a bruised left foot.
Yankees: OF Aaron Judge (torn ligament in proper toe) stated he’s nonetheless deciding about touring to the All-Star Game in Seattle or whether or not he’ll get therapy in the course of the break in New York.
“I’ll have an answer here in a couple of days, so we’ll see,” he stated.
UP NEXT
Cubs RHP Kyle Hendricks (3-3, 2.64 ERA) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (5-5, 4.52) on Sunday.
