NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Even Giancarlo Stanton joined the early aggressiveness on the bases for the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
Stanton had his first regular-season stolen base since 2020 and fired up his teammates during their 9-7 victory over the Miami Marlins on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
With the Yankees holding a one-run lead, J.C. Escarra took a cutter from Calvin Faucher for strike one. Stanton took off and slid with his right foot to beat the throw from catcher Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they\u2019re going to give it to me, I got to go get it,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n
Stanton stole his first base since Game 3 of the 2024 ALDS at Kansas City.<\/p>\n
It was Stanton\u2019s 43rd career regular-season stolen base and first since Aug. 3, 2020. He stole 36 bases in his first eight seasons with the Marlins and had five in 2018 when he appeared in 158 games during his first year with the Yankees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was good,\u201d Yankees left fielder Cody Bellinger said. \u201cThe boys were fired up and that was a huge extra run there obviously. He\u2019s just playing really well and it\u2019s really good to see.”<\/p>\n
After advancing to third on a groundout by Escarra, Stanton trotted home standing up on a passed ball by Ram\u00edrez during an at-bat to Jos\u00e9 Caballero to give the Yankees their sixth run.<\/p>\n
Stanton had the only steal on a night when the Yankees had 10 walks. The Yankees have an AL-best 12 steals in 15 opportunities through their first eight games after finishing with 134 last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cAwesome, awesome,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said about the stolen base.<\/p>\n
Following his stolen base, Stanton hit a two-strike two-run single in the eighth to give the Yankees an 8-6 lead.<\/p>\n
After missing New York\u2019s first 70 games last year because of inflammation in the tendons of both elbows, he hit .273 with 24 homers, 66 RBIs and a .944 OPS in 77 games.<\/p>\n
This season, he is hitting .393 and is 5-for-10 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to take what they give me, understand where I\u2019m at each day and put us in a good opportunity to win,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n
Stanton had 38 homers with 100 RBIs in his first season with New York, but missed 266 of 708 games over the next five seasons because of a series of strains of right biceps, right knee, left hamstring (twice) and left quadriceps along with right ankle inflammation and left Achilles tendinitis.<\/p>\n
Noticeably slimmer in 2024, he limited his lost time to 28 games for a strained left hamstring. Stanton finished with 27 homers and 72 RBIs in 114 games and added seven homers and 16 RBIs in 14 postseason games as the Yankees reached their first World Series since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Even Giancarlo Stanton joined the early aggressiveness on the bases for the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[1797,5,1111,1365,310,84633,1965,1816,778,58,4171,4,9501,9496,22871,22858,22859],"class_list":{"0":"post-664023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-calvin-faucher","11":"tag-cody-bellinger","12":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","13":"tag-giancarlo-stanton-steal-yankees-marlins","14":"tag-jose-caballero","15":"tag-marlins","16":"tag-miami","17":"tag-miami-marlins","18":"tag-miamimarlins","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","21":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","22":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","23":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","24":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}