Look, when Giancarlo Stanton hits a baseball extremely high and extremely hard, it's usually a given that ball will be leaving the outfield.
The New York Yankees outfielder's power is a modern legend and it looked like another chapter had been written when he hit a towering fly ball to left field in the first inning of the American League wild-card game. Fenway Park's Green Monster is infamous for swallowing home runs, but this was one looked crushed.
Unfortunately for several involved, especially Stanton himself, the fly ball was not a homer.