It astir apt wasn’t nan champion thought for nan New York Yankees to nonstop Giancarlo Stanton location to effort to people a tally here.
On Monday, nan Yankees hosted nan Los Angeles Dodgers successful Game 3 of nan 2024 World Series, looking to trim nan bid to a 2-1 shortage aft 2 losses successful California. However, nan Yankees recovered themselves down 3-0 early aft a first inning Freddie Freeman location tally and a Mookie Betts sacrifice alert successful nan 3rd put nan Dodgers ahead.
The Yankees were putting guys connected base, but were continuing to time off them stranded passim nan mediate innings. In nan 4th inning, pinch Stanton connected 2nd and 2 outs, Anthony Volpe hooked a shot into near field. It wasn’t a heavy ball, but nan Yankees sent Stanton towards location regardless, hoping to get connected nan committee for nan first time.
Instead, however, Stanton was thrown retired connected a gorgeous play by Teoscar Hernández, helped on by nan truth that nan Yankees’ designated hitter was so slow getting home.
BANG!!
Teoscar Hernández throws retired Stanton astatine location plate!
📺: FOX pic.twitter.com/nAj2BhWOhF
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 29, 2024
Stanton decidedly shouldn’t person tally location and nan Yankees’ 3rd guidelines coach perfectly should person stopped him. While Stanton is an absolute monster successful nan batter’s box, he’s not precisely cognize for his speed. At all.
Baseball fans connected Twitter, however, couldn’t thief but make memes astatine Stanton’s disbursal for his slow tally astir nan bases during Game 3.
Giancarlo Stanton moving location pic.twitter.com/GfovdkUJ0r
— Richard Staff (@RichardStaff) October 29, 2024
Stanton rounding 3rd#Yankees#Repbx#WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/z0epA9yv5e
— Daniel Benjamin Martin (@BabyBiird) October 29, 2024
STANTON pic.twitter.com/PHpXYK68Iy
— Dan (@GrandpaKersh) October 29, 2024
Giancarlo Stanton moving pic.twitter.com/Dc92yeuX1k
— Dylan Hornik (@_Hornik_) October 29, 2024
i audibly gasped successful my quiet flat erstwhile one saw 178 twelvemonth aged giancarlo stanton information 3rd there
— kennedi landry (@kennlandry) October 29, 2024
Giancarlo Stanton rounding third: pic.twitter.com/S0fUyLpCjL
— Josh Reynolds (@JoshReynolds24) October 29, 2024
Giancarlo Stanton was moving for illustration he was successful a bad dream
pic.twitter.com/m9GW6jMwri
— Kent Murphy (@KentMurphy) October 29, 2024
Stanton connected nan guidelines paths: pic.twitter.com/Zv604tfFXl
— theScore (@theScore) October 29, 2024