NEW YORK -- While the Yankees rolled against David Price and the Red Sox on Wednesday evening, littering the scoreboard with crooked numbers from the second inning on, one of their most important sluggers was left out of the fun.
After a season of fattening his numbers against Boston pitching, Stanton was 0-for-9 in the first two games of the series. His fortunes changed in the fourth inning on Thursday, as Stanton crushed a grand slam to right field off Heath Hembree, giving the Yankees a 6-4 lead at the time.
Stanton had batted .