Going into the April 6 win over the Blue Jays, Stanton was batting .125, and had a single home run in the Yankees’ March 29 win over the Houston Astros. Questions were piling up for the 2017 league-MVP.
Joel Sherman of the New York Post went as far as to place Stanton among the MLB’s “most expensive disappointments,” in an April 6 column.
“Stanton is in a specific class of players pushing deeper into their 30s who are beginning to stack worrisome years upon each other while having plenty of seasons left on hefty contracts,” Sherman wrote. “Without those contracts, does Stanton make the Yankees’ roster?”
As if responding to Sherman’s column, Stanton went yard against the Blue Jays, and in grand slam fashion. On a two-two count in the bottom of the third, he gave the Yankees a four to one lead they never looked back from.
It’s Stanton’s 11th career grand slam, which is second among active players, according to StatMuse.
Manny Machado of the Padres has 12.
There’s nothing like a grand slam to get you out of your slump. And the slump isn’t lost on Stanton, who’s already looking ahead to his next at-bat, as he told Greg Joyce of the New York Post following the win.
“Just got to, over and over again, game after game, continue to have good at-bats,” Stanton told Joyce. “Put all four or five of them together, not just one or two and good things will happen.”
