NEW YORK — There’s this thing about Giancarlo Stanton — this ability that pitchers know and fear. It’s not just the otherworldly exit velocity, or his ability to rocket balls somewhere in the vicinity of the moon. It’s also that he can look lost in a handful of at-bats and then do all those Stanton things in his next turn at the plate.
As it happens, Stanton had been in one of those lost-looking slumps coming into this series with the Orioles. And, as it also happens, he busted out of it — with gusto, and a hat tip to the history books.
Stanton, who put together a two-hit game Tuesday, came back Wednesday to hit his 350th home run, drive in three runs and go 2-for-3 in the Yankees 5-2 win over the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. His sacrifice fly in the sixth broke a tie at 2. The Yankees scored two insurance runs in the seventh, first on Joey Gallo’s solo homer and then when Isiah Kiner-Falefa singled, moved over on two groundouts and scored on a wild pitch.
