How one player took the Yankees to the next level in statement game
The New York team scored five runs against Washington, all driven in by Giancarlo Stanton.
The New York Yankees (72–60) notched their third straight win with a 5–1 victory over the Washington Nationals (53–79) at Yankee Stadium, powered by the bat of Giancarlo Stanton. The 2017 American League MVP drove in all five of the Yankees’ runs.
CJ Abrams put the Nationals on the board in the top of the third, lining a single to deep left that scored Robert Hassell III and James Wood.
But the Yankees quickly answered in the bottom half. With the bases loaded, two outs, and a full count, Stanton turned on a Mackenzie Gore curveball and ripped it into left field for a bases-clearing double, giving New York a 3–2 lead.
Washington had a prime chance to respond in the sixth inning, loading the bases with one out. But Jacob Young and James Wood both came up empty, stranding all three runners. Stanton then delivered the knockout blow in the bottom of the frame, blasting an Orlando Ribalta slider 451 feet over the left-field wall and out of the stadium.
The two-run shot, which also plated Cody Bellinger, extended the Yankees’ lead to 5–2.
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Stanton exited in the seventh, replaced by José Caballero, and neither side managed another run despite the Yankees loading the bases on walks later that inning. Closer David Bednar sealed the win in the ninth, striking out Hassell III and Young before Jazz Chisholm Jr. fielded Wood’s grounder at second and fired to first for the final out.
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