Giancarlo Stanton was hard on himself Saturday for ending the sport by hitting right into a double play.
On Sunday, he was hard on the baseball.
The Yankees slugger crushed a mammoth 485-foot home run within the third inning against Giants right-hander Ross Stripling, clobbering the ball onto the deck above the batter’s eye in center field.
Stanton’s second blast of the season got here off the bat at 117.8 mph, the two-run shot giving the Yankees a 3-0 lead two batters after Aaron Judge had also hit his second home run of the yr.
The house run was the second-longest of Stanton’s profession throughout the Statcast era (dating back to 2015), wanting only the 504-foot shot he blistered in 2016.
Stanton, serving because the DH for the primary time this season after starting the primary two games in right field, swung at the primary pitch Stripling threw him within the third inning, a slider near the underside of the strike zone.
The Yankees went up 4-0 within the fourth on a solo home run from Kyle Higashioka.