Stanton leads baseball’s major leagues with 44 home runs. He has homered 11 times in his past 12 games and 23 in 35. He is on pace to hit 60 home runs this season, a milestone only five major league players have reached.
Stanton helped the Marlins get off to a fast start, belting a single to left in the first inning and scoring on Christian Yelich’s double.
San Francisco had taken a 2-1 lead in the third, but Stanton knotted the score with his homer off of Giants ace Madison Bumgarner in the bottom of the inning.
Miami grabbed the lead with another run in the inning, and Marlins backup catcher A.J. Ellis hit his third homer of the season in the fourth.
But after the Giants trimmed the deficit to 4-3 in the fifth, they took the lead with three runs in the seventh, adding three more over the last two innings.
The Giants ended the Marlins’ four-game winning streak. But Stanton’s homer streak continues. He’s approaching the major league record for consecutive games with a home run, which is eight.
That was last achieved by Ken Griffey Jr. in 1993. Don Mattingly of the Yankees in 1987 and Dale Long of the 1956 Pittsburgh Pirates also homered in eight straight games.
