NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton hit a loud tiebreaking grand slam in the third inning, and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday for their eighth win in 10 games to start the season.
Stanton gave the Yankees a 5-1 lead with a 417-foot drive off Bowden Francis (0-2) that clanked against the facing of an advertisement below the second deck in left field.
Stanton fell behind 0-2 in the count before turning on a 2-2 inside fastball and driving the ball 110.6 mph for his 11th career slam, his first since September 2022. He took a couple steps as he watched the ball, then flipped his bat.
''It's just a good spot and you know it off the bat,'' Stanton said.
Stanton also homered Saturday in a three-hit game that followed a 3-for-24 start. He homered in consecutive games for the first time since going deep in three straight games last Aug. 2-4.
''It was a jolt,'' manager Aaron Boone said. ''One of those you know right away, and I know I reacted to it. Just a really good at-bat and obviously an inning that we built, and guys just had really good at-bats in front of him to set that situation up.''
The Yankees have won their first three series and are off to their best 10-game start since 2020. New York has won its first three series in consecutive seasons for the first time since the 162-game schedule began in 1961.
''We've been able to win games in a lot of different ways,'' Boone said.