Giancarlo Stanton's Late Career Surge Giving Yankees a Boost

One of the primary reasons the Yankee lineup has been able to grind down on some of the league's best arms is because of Stanton. Five straight multi-hit games are absurd, and few in history have ever started a season so hot.

According to Sarah Langs, Stanton is the fourth player in team history to accomplish the feat. He joins Bob Meusel in 1928, Bill Skowron in 1956, and Alfonso Soriano back in 2003.

Another Multi-Hit Game

There's some 2019 DJ LeMahieu in this run, too. Before things went off the rails for LeMahieu in his career, he was easily one of the most well-rounded hitters in the league, with an uncanny ability to have a batting title prowess, while also hitting for power. LeMahieu was so good at notching those multi-hit games that Michael Kay even had his own call for it.

"Another mult-hit game for DJ LeMahieu," Kay would frequently say during games, after the versatile infielder would lace another one to the outfield grass. During that run, LeMahieu had two four-game multi-hit streaks and one six-game streak.

Six games into the season, Stanton has a shot at doing something that LeMaheiu didn't accomplish until June, when he went on that six-game streak. Granted, during that streak, LeMahieu racked up 18 hits, and Stanton is at ten. It's doubtful that he'll have a nine-hit game, but it's still impressive.

A Healthy Stanton

More important than streaks, the Yankees are getting a version of Stanton that they hoped to get when they first traded for him. Stanton had a solid introduction with the Yankees, but that was followed by years of injuries and a bad 2023, when it seemed like the star slugger was at the end of a decorated career.

Stanton may have drunk out of the fountain of youth last year, because whatever he's doing is working. Since coming back last June, not only has he hit but — knock on wood — he has been healthy as well. Bad elbows and bags of chips be damned, Stanton is hitting .290/.360/.606 with 25 homers and 70 RBI with a 165 wRC+ in his last 301 plate appearances.

For now, while Judge looks to get his footing and be the hitter that the Yankees have become accustomed to since that first MVP season in 2022, it will be Big G who carries the Yankees for now. That's the luxury of a manager being able to pencil titans like that in a lineup.

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