With a go-ahead home run in the 10th inning of Wednesday night’s win against the Rays, Giancarlo Stanton has continued his very impressive season in general, but also a very impressive season in his spots as a pinch-hitter. Before a strikeout in Friday night’s loss to the Red Sox, Stanton had been hitting .571/.667/1.571 with two home runs and six RBI in his nine plate appearances as a pinch-hitter.

Adding to the remarkability of this is that Stanton wasn’t always great as a pinch-hitter earlier in his career. Even including this run, his career OPS as a PH is just .636, and the two home runs this year are the only ones for his career.

As we saw with his K on Friday night, it was always going to be unreasonable for him to keep up the OPS over 2.000, but he’s still on pace to have one of

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