It would be a good thing if the home run Giancarlo Stanton clobbered in the seventh inning Wednesday night was at long last something more than a tease.
Maybe it won’t matter. Maybe the thought that the Yankees can actually make a bell-lap sprint for the playoffs is as much of a mirage as whenever your favorite cartoon character of choice is crawling through the desert, spies a pool of fresh water and instead guzzles a mouthful of sand.
Maybe the upcoming trip to Miami — with an army of live arms that aren’t exactly what the doctor would prescribe a struggling offense — and then a detour through Atlanta will put the Yankees away for good, finally put a sleeper hold on the season.Still, it would be a good thing if the home run Giancarlo Stanton clobbered in the seventh inning Wednesday night was at long last something more than a tease, the way so many of Stanton’s starts in this start-and-stop season have been teases.
Giancarlo Stanton has not been able to remember what it was like to be Giancarlo Stanton. A brief power splurge will be followed by a dozen at-bats in which he seems positively mystified. A spate of good at-bats was interrupted by one terrible piece of baserunning that Yankees fans aren’t ever going to be able to quite forget.
The player he was is not that far removed from the player he has been this year. He’s still only 33 years old. This shouldn’t be a ceremonial victory lap of a season for him as it is for Miguel Cabrera. He can still make that happen.Giancarlo Stanton celebrates with teammates after hitting a solo homer in the seventh inning of the Yankees’ loss.
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