GIANCARLO STANTON briefly lifted his front left foot, turned on a 3-2 offering from Justin De Fratus, and sent a ball into the open real estate beyond the leftfield fence at Citizens Bank Park in record time.
Well, not officially. But the line-drive home run, Stanton's sixth in his last 15 games at the South Philly homer haven, traveled faster than fans to the parking lot yesterday afternoon, when the Phillies put forth their second sloppy game in less than 24 hours.
Stanton's two-run home run was the finishing touch in a deflating, 9-1 defeat for the Phillies in front of a ballpark record-low crowd of 17,097.