Yankees Edge Royals: Stanton's Key Plays Seal Victory

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00:00The Yankees beat the Royals last night, as we mentioned, 3-2.

00:08They can wrap it up tonight in Kansas City at Kauffman.

00:12Here you go, Giancarlo Stanton, who I told you earlier, 12 homers now in 30 postseason

00:18games for the Yankees.

00:19He had an RBI double, he had a stolen base, and he had this WFAN in New York.

00:24Now here's the 3-1 to Giancarlo, swing on, a high fly to left, that goes Melendez on

00:32the track, he's at the wall, and she's got a Stantonian homerun.

00:41He drove a high fly deep left into the Yankee bullpen to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead.

00:49Giancarlo, non si può scoparlo, and the Yankees now take the lead with 6 outs to go.

00:57Listen, first of all, it did not land in the bullpen.

01:01That ball was nowhere near the bullpen, John, as usual.

01:05It was up on the cement by the fans getting beer.

01:09It was 10 rows north of the bullpen.

01:14It was well beyond.

01:16It was closer to the fountain than it was the bullpen.

01:20I'll give him this.

01:22It was fun to hear him do the end of the game.

01:24And I'll give you this, he was better than Bob Gostas.

01:28You know what?

01:30He was.

01:31He had a few months off.

01:32John, getting to go.

01:33And I did hear him say at the end of the game, we played it for me earlier, I guess at the

01:37end he said, Yankees take a 3-2 lead in the series.

01:39But they would think the score was 3-2.

01:41So I'm going to give him a pass with that one.

01:43Listen, he used to call pop-ups to the second baseman, home runs to the short porch.

01:49Stanton is now second all-time, that's all-time in postseason history, home runs per at-bats.

01:56The only person better than him, Babe Ruth, he's second on that list.

02:00Home runs per at-bat in the postseason.

02:03That's his name.

02:05All with the Yankees, by the way.

02:06He didn't play any playoff games with the Marlins.

02:08So all with the Yankees is what he has done there.

02:11He has been outstanding.

02:13Here he is talking about this is why he came to New York.

02:16And God, you wonder why he hit it above the bullpen.

02:19Look at the hammers on this dude.

02:22Here's Stanton.

02:23I mean, this is what I came here for.

02:25So, you know, not always going to be successful here.

02:29But, you know, you just got to keep working and put yourself in the best opportunity.

02:37You know what's funny is that he's right.

02:39Like he misses tons of time.

02:41He misses tons of games.

02:42He gets booed.

02:44He deals with the vicious media attacks on him.

02:48And then when October rolls around, he becomes Reggie Jackson.

02:52I mean, honestly, he passed Reggie Jackson last night with that home run.

02:57All-time for the Yankees.

03:00He is like, you know, you talk about Jeter.

03:05They called him Mr. November.

03:07Jeter never hit like this guy.

03:10That's just all there is to it.

03:11Jeter was a really good player.

03:13There's no denying how good he was.

03:16This guy, Stanton, his numbers are just crazy.

03:20I said this earlier.

03:21You're talking about he was literally like a tenth of a point behind Babe Ruth

03:26in every home run per at-bat.

03:29Like nine.

03:30He was literally nine-something to ten.

03:32And it's like by a fraction of a, you know, at-bat.

03:36Like every nine at-bats, the guy hits a home run in the postseason.

03:40Like that's bigger than Reggie Jackson.

03:42I mean, that's, you know, DiMaggio, Mantle, Ruth.

03:46It's crazy.

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