Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton loves 2-for-4 in absurd start to MLB season
This seems like it should be impossible.
Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton loves 2-for-4 in absurd start to MLB season originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Giancarlo Stanton is on repeat.
The New York Yankees ' slugger has started the 2026 MLB season in a way that's almost hard to fathom. These are his stat lines at the plate from the first five games of the new campaign: 2-for-4 2-for-4 2-for-4 2-for-4 2-for-4 Yep, he has gone exactly 2-for-4 in all five games. Yep, he's 10-for-20 on the young season, a sweet .
500 batting average. MORE: Terrance Gore's son honors dad with perfect first pitch In the first series against the Giants, Stanton had five singles and a home run. Now in the first two games against the Mariners, Stanton has gone for two doubles and two singles.
It's really just a ridiculous start in every way. He's only the third Yankees player to ever start the season with at least five multi-hit games, but it seems unlikely that anyone for the Yanks has ever gone exactly 2-for-4 in each of the first five games of a season exactly. Has anyone ever done it for any team?