ALCS Game 4: Once again, where was Giancarlo Stanton?

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If the Yankees season ends Friday night, which by all indications it will, the enduring image of their last stand will be this: The sight of CC Sabathia, with a 39-year-old body, a degenerating right knee and now a throbbing left shoulder, having to be coaxed off the field, while Giancarlo Stanton, built like Michaelangelo's David with mobility to match, sat idle on the bench. Whether that was by Stanton's choice, by general managerial decree, or by field manager negligence has yet to be determined. The result was a soul-crushing 8-3 defeat to the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series that left the Yankees on the verge of elimination and a 10th consecutive year without a World Series appearance.

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