The Yankees need Stanton before it's too late

MINNEAPOLIS – The Yankees are desperately looking for a hero to carry them out.

It's so bad that Wednesday night at Target Field, they were desperately looking for a hard blow.

Right-hander Jake Odorizzi did not give up a draw in the eighth in the Yankees' 3-1 win against the Twins. It was at this moment that Greg Bird scored twice in the center left to score Luke Voit, who had walked.

Odorizzi went into the night after losing three straight games and an average of five innings through his first 29 outings.

Consider this as a wake-up call for the Yankees, who saw their lead to host the game of wild-cards reduce to one with A's 10-0 win over the Orioles. A 3000-mile trip to the west coast to start the playoffs would have disastrous consequences.

"I thought he was locating the fastball at the top of the box," Bird said of Odorizzi, who recently spoke with Jack Morris, a Twins broadcaster, on the thrower.

"If we want to go where we want to go, you have to recover from these things."

A hot feature of Giancarlo Stanton would work wonders.

Prior to Wednesday, in Stanton's last 10 games, he scored no home runs and four hits in 38 ABs, two runs and .370 with 19 strikeouts. In those same 10 games last year with games # 134 to # 143 in Miami, Stanton produced two homers and two runs produced in 37 at-chaps with a .662 and 10-kilometer differential.

Stanton went 0-to-3 with a walk on Wednesday and after a fourth run, he threw his bat to the ground angrily. Miguel Andujar took the second shot of the Yankees, a single in the ninth shooter, Trevor Hildenberger. Stanton then dubbed a rocket just to the right of fieldman Max Kepler for the second outing.

It was that kind of night.

The tall man has been on this road before this time of year. Nobody cared about last year. This year, as a Yankee, all eyes are on Stanton, especially with Aaron Judge still missing.

Last year, from Game 144 to the end of the season, in a period of 18 games, Stanton earned a .282 average with .366 points and .535, an average of .366. 901 with five circuits, three doubles and 19 RBIs.

He is hot. The Yankees could use this type of production now.

As for his collapse, Stanton told The Post before the game, "Get rid of it now. I would rather it be now than in two weeks. I'm close, it's just a matter of timing. "

After the defeat, he said of the team: "I thought we had good bats. What can you do? We hit the ball hard. We know what's at stake, we know what we need to do. "

The Yankees left 4-5 on this trip and returned home Friday to play the Blue Jays.

"Arrive at Friday and do it," said Stanton.

The Scouts note that the launchers bombarded Stanton inside, especially at the beginning of a series, and then worked with breaking things.

"The timing is a bit off," Aaron Boone said of his slugger slumped. "You know with him that he's still close. He is [hitting coaches] Marcus [Thames] and PJ [Pilittere] have somehow identified things that they really want to work on, small adjustments that hopefully will allow him to get into that place where he really was for a few months while he was exercising a lot functions. offensive. & # 39; & # 39;

Stanton has 33 homers and 31 doubles, the first Yankee to reach those numbers since Robinson Cano in 2012.

"Giancarlo, throughout his career, has known those hot times, he is the best player in the league," said Boone. "We hope he will be well placed in the last two weeks and that he will be visiting in October."

With the roll of A, there is no margin for error. The Yankees need a striking hero.

As Stanton said, go to Friday and do it.