Giancarlo Stanton’s Grand Slam Highlights Blowout of Baltimore

Giancarlo Stanton turned on a 92 mile-per-hour pitch from Shawn Armstrong and despatched the ball hovering over the guests’ bullpen and into Yankee Stadium’s left discipline bleachers.

The small crowd on the Yankees’ first night time sport of the season buzzed.

When the ball got here down, it landed in a fan gathering space referred to as Frank’s Crimson Sizzling Terrace, 471 toes from dwelling plate, close to the newly repopulated deep seats.

Stanton’s eighth profession grand slam carried the Yankees over Baltimore, 7-0, Monday night time and handed the Orioles their first loss this season.

“It’s form of every thing rolls in sync and, yeah, like typically issues go not in a blackout, however simply there’s no sound,” Stanton mentioned, attempting to elucidate the sensation of launching a ball farther than even most main leaguers can.

“There’s not something besides you watching the flight of the ball,” he mentioned. “You don’t know the rest that’s happening. It’s a really cool feeling. It’s laborious to explain very particular.”

The Yankees had been forward by 1-0 on Aaron Decide’s fourth-inning homer when starter Jorge Lopez (0-1) walked the bases loaded within the fifth and Armstrong pressured in a run with a stroll to slumping Aaron Hicks.

Stanton adopted with the longest homer of the younger season.

“The best way he hits them, it’s simply totally different It’s like nothing else,” Yankees Supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “He’s a unicorn. I imply, that ball was simply so pure on an evening the place it’s in all probability not flying nice and simply hits it by way of the Stadium.”

Stanton had been booed when he struck out within the first, dropping to 0 for 9.

“I attempt my greatest after I’m on the market, so I can’t fear about all of that,” he mentioned.

Armstrong, making his season debut after coming off the paternity listing, crouched on the mound. Coming off a gap, sweep at Boston, the Orioles by no means closed shut after that.

The Yankees improved to 8-0 when Decide and Stanton homer in the identical sport, together with three postseason wins.

Decide reached out for a thigh-high fastball for his go-ahead homer within the fourth. The 344-foot, opposite-field drive to the right-field brief porch would have been a house run in solely two different massive league ballparks: Houston and Seattle. Decide turned the second-fastest to 120 homers by reaching the determine in 428 video games, behind solely Ryan Howard’s 391.

“I don’t assume mine went so far as Massive G’s, however wherever they go, they nonetheless rely,” Decide mentioned.

Each Decide and Stanton hit their first dwelling runs of the season.

“Individuals say it doesn’t weigh on you, but it surely weighs on you typically,” Decide admitted.

Left-hander Jordan Montgomery (1-0) allowed 4 hits in six innings with seven strikeouts and no walks.

Montgomery induced 14 swings and misses amongst 73 pitches, together with eight on changeups and 4 on curveballs. With one other yr to strengthen since Tommy John surgical procedure in June 2018, he reached 94.5 m.p.h., up from a mean of 92.6 m.p.h. final season.

“Simply assault the hitters with 4 totally different pitches,” he mentioned. “Was within the zone rather a lot and was capable of broaden after I wanted to.”

Luis Cessa and Aroldis Chapman mixed for 3 innings of hitless aid. Chapman, throwing at as much as 101 m.p.h., struck out three round a stroll in his season debut after finishing a two-game suspension.

Baltimore had been looking for its first 4-0 begin since 2017 however as an alternative wound up with a well-known end result. The Yankees have gained 11 straight dwelling video games towards the Orioles since Could 2019, matching a franchise file, outscoring Baltimore by 69-28.

Lopez gave up 4 runs and three hits in 4 ⅔ innings plus three of Baltimore pitching’s seven walks.

“They had been grinding each at-bat,” he mentioned.