LOS ANGELES — Giancarlo Stanton was ready to be another October hero for the Yankees.

It was a Hollywood repeat of a script the Yankees have stuck to during their playoff run this month.

Stanton delivered a go-ahead two-run home run in the top of the sixth inning off Dodgers right-hander Jack Flaherty, a moon shot down the left field line that scraped the stratosphere before landing 450 feet away.

It was Stanton’s fourth straight game with a home run back in the American League Championship Series against the Guardians, his 17th career home run in the postseason. Each of his last five hits has left the yard. He has been the Yankees’ best hitter and has picked on his teammates, namely Aaron Judge, when they haven’t produced in spades.

However, Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning turned Stanton’s home run into a footnote.

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Stanton compared Friday’s heartbreaking loss to Game 3 of the ALCS against Cleveland, another thriller that ended in a walk-off homer.

Stanton had another huge home run that became an afterthought in that game. His go-ahead call off Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase faded out of focus as Cleveland hit a pair of big home runs of their own, including a walk-off by David Fry against reliever Clay Holmes.

“You hate to lose like that, but a loss is a loss,” Stanton said Friday night. “It doesn’t matter if it’s 3-1 or 10-nothing. A loss is a loss. We have plenty of chances to split it and go home.

What the Yankees can count on, regardless of the end results, is Stanton rising to the occasion this time of year. He spent the month building on what was already an impressive resume from October.

The homer he hit off Flaherty on Friday wasn’t even a terrible pitch. He had to dig down and wave the breaking ball two strokes to the left, sending it whizzing through the air at 116.6 miles per hour. Flaherty missed his spot, but it was still a tough pitch to hit out of, a testament to how locked-in Stanton was.

“Just fighting,” Stanton said of his playoff performance. “Grinding every at-bat. I’m getting all the information I can. Trying to produce.”

Dodger Stadium has also been a home run paradise for the superstar slugger, a ballpark Stanton often visited as a child growing up in Panorama City, California.

Through 25 regular season games, Stanton is hitting .309 with a 1.086 OPS in Los Angeles against the Dodgers. Add in the 2022 All-Star Game and Friday night’s unforgettable Game 1, and Stanton now has 12 home runs at Dodger Stadium in 27 games.

He remembers a time when he paid just $5 or $7 to sit in the left and right field bleachers at Dodger Stadium. It wasn’t until he got older and “more connected” that Stanton got better seats.

For the first game of what will be a timeless World Series, fans in the seats where Stanton used to sit — or in the seats near where his moonshot of a home run landed — must have dropped thousands and thousands.

In the meantime, what Stanton has provided for the Yankees this month has been invaluable.