Stanton’s long homer sets an MLB record

DENVER -- One night after belting the majors’ longest home run since 2009, Giancarlo Stanton landed one in the players’ parking lot belonging to the Colorado Rockies.

On the bounce, but still. ...

The Bunyanesque legend of Stanton continued to grow Saturday at Coors Field, where the Marlins’ 22-year-old man-child entered the record books with yet another display of breathtaking power.

With his three-run fender bender off Tyler Chatwood in the first inning of the Marlins’ 6-5 victory over the Rockies, Stanton became the first player in major-league history to hit a home run in his first six games at any ballpark.

Stanton has now homered in each of his six games at Coors.

The record-setting knock didn’t match his 494-foot crusher Friday in terms of sheer distance.

But, at 448 feet, it was no chip shot. And it scored high on style points, landing on the concourse behind the left field bleachers, bouncing out of the ballpark on one hop, and landing somewhere in the Rockies’ lot.

“Maybe he feels comfortable here,” manager Ozzie Guillen said.

Ya think?

Stanton said he likes hitting at Coors because of the ivy-covered wall that serves as the batter’s eye backdrop. He said he enjoys hitting at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia for the same reason.

Memo to Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria: grow ivy at Marlins Park.

“I will tell Mr. Loria that,” Guillen said. “Let’s put ivy there.”

As if his brute hitting strength wasn’t stunning enough, Stanton made a spectacular, somersaulting catch in right one inning after his home run. Stanton robbed Jordan Pacheco of a certain extra-base hit with a diving, backhanded catch.

No wonder that, when asked what sort of numbers he thought he would put up if he played more than a few games each season at Coors, Stanton replied: “Use your imagination.”

The night didn’t belong entirely to Stanton.

While Hanley Ramirez was connecting on a pair of home runs for the Dodgers on Saturday, one of the players the Marlins received for him in last month’s trade with Los Angeles — Nathan Eovaldi — was turning in perhaps his finest performance so far as a Marlin.

Eovaldi, 22, held the Rockies to one run over 6 2/3 innings. It was the second-longest outing of his 21 career major-league starts. His 115 pitches marked a personal high.

The Rockies didn’t record their first hit off Eovaldi until Michael Cuddyer singled with no outs in the fourth and scored their only run on Tyler Colvin’s RBI double in the same inning.

But the Marlins’ bullpen allowed the cushion to crumble.

Colorado made it 6-3 with two runs in the eighth off Chad Gaudin and trimmed it to 6-5 with two more in the ninth off Steve Cishek. But, with the tying run at first, Cishek retired Jordan Pacheco on a weak grounder for his ninth save.

If Stanton was healthy all year he woulda been carrying the team like he is now just as he did in May [pic]

If Stanton was healthy all year he woulda been carrying the team like he is now just as he did in May [pic]

hes tied for 6th in HR's and he has over 100 at bats less than the leader

hes tied for 6th in HR's and he has over 100 at bats less than the leader

thats a hitters park

if he played for the rockies he would break barry bonds single season record

Thanks for Hanley. 2 homers today. [pic]

Its baseball....... Just baseball.

baseball has the most obscure records. The first player to hit a homerun while wearing blue boxers on June 8th in San Francisco while a plane with 16 nuns was aboard all drinking whiskey from a plastic cup.

Who gives a !!.

yeah I could see stanton signing with the yankees

I wouldn't blame him either, the marlins are a joke

he'd fit right in up in new york, he deserves to get that big look