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Strikeouts (and boos) pile up in Giancarlo Stanton's historically bad start

Giancarlo Stanton was expected to make some history in 2018, but this can't be what he had in mind.

One of baseball's premier power hitters has started this season -- his first in New York -- in an all-time slump. Stanton struck out Sunday in the 12th inning, capping a Yankees loss and putting an unfortunate bow on another five-strikeout game.

Before this season, Stanton had never struck out five times in a game.

By April 8, he had done it twice, and made some unfortunate history:

Giancarlo Stanton is the first player in the live ball era to have 2 games with 0 hits and 5 strikeouts in the same season.