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Giancarlo Stanton’s Game 5 home run placed him alone in Yankees history
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Giancarlo Stanton’s Game 5 home run placed him alone in Yankees history

It won’t matter to him because of the end result, but Giancarlo Stanton is on his own.

Rarely is a Yankees record set, such is the history of the organization, but no one in Yankees history has hit more home runs in a single postseason than their lanky designated hitter.

Stanton crushed a home run in the third inning, his seventh dinger in 14 postseason games, during the 7-6, World Series-clinching Game 5 loss to the Dodgers in The Bronx, which was not lost because of Stanton.


Yankees design hitter Giancarlo Stanton #27 hits a solo home run during the third inning.
Yankees design hitter Giancarlo Stanton hits a solo home run during the third inning of Game 5 on October 30, 2024. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

Stanton drove in the fifth Yankees run of the night with the home run off Ryan Brasier and the sixth, final run of their season with a lead sacrifice fly in the sixth.

All year long, Stanton has highlighted situational hitting as an area to focus on. With runners on the corners against the overwhelming right-handed Brusdar Graterol, Stanton managed to get under a slider in the first pitch and send it to the left-center warning track. Juan Soto scored the run that could have made the difference had the Dodgers not staged a comeback in the eighth.

After a comeback season, but not a particularly stellar one, Stanton flipped a switch in October. He drove in a run in 10 of 14 games this month, to 16 total, and went 15-for-55 while consistently rising to the moment — except his last.

Stanton got a chance in the bottom of the eighth inning when he stepped up to the plate with two and the Yankees trailing by one.


Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the New York Yankees rounds the bases during his solo home run during the third inning of Game 5 on October 30, 2024.
Giancarlo Stanton #27 of the New York Yankees rounds the bases during his solo home run during the third inning of Game 5 on October 30, 2024.
Jason Szenes/New York Post

He flied out to right, but a last-ditch rally failed.


With a walk in the second inning, Juan Soto extended a 25-game postseason on-base streak dating back to Game 2 of the 2022 wild-card series, when he was with the Padres.

Soto is tied with Boog Powell for fifth place all-time in a category that Miguel Cabrera leads for 31 in a row.


The Yankees kept the same lineup as the night before, which consisted of left-handed Jazz Chisholm Jr. in clearing, splitting righty Judge and No. 5 hitter Stanton.

Austin Wells, who was benched in Game 3, was back at catcher and batted eighth after hitting a home run in Game 4.


Before Wednesday’s do-or-die game, the Yankees planned to fly to Los Angeles on Thursday for what would have been an off day with no practice for a Game 6 that would have been Friday.

They will not make the journey.