Giancarlo Stanton blasts towering home run out of AT&T Park during batting practice

Josh Hyber

Giancarlo Stanton blasts towering home run out of AT&T Park during batting practice image

What did this baseball ever do to deserve such cruelty? 

During batting practice before Sunday's Marlins-Giants matchup, Miami right fielder Giancarlo Stanton showed just how much power he has, sending a baseball out of AT&T Park (literally). 

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He was just warming up, as he hit one out during the game, too.

Before @Giancarlo818 homered in the game, he hit a homer out of AT&T Park during BP: https://t.co/EXhOBAzicc pic.twitter.com/DSknR0UE2L

Stanton sits on 185 career home runs and is in just his seventh year in the majors. This season, the right fielder has been mentored by first-year Marlins manager Don Mattingly and hitting coach Barry Bonds. 

“With Donny and Barry, who have done it all before, who have won MVPs and have had success, had failures at the highest level, it’s a settling feeling,” Stanton, who has been with the organization for nine years, told Sporting News in March. “When you have a coaching staff that’s been through that, they’re different types of lectures. They stick a little better.”

Stanton said he plans to pick the brain of the entire coaching staff “here and there” throughout the season, depending on the situation and on which coach he feels most comfortable going to at a paticular moment for a particular reason. But, the right fielder added, “You’re not going to get everything out of them in one day.”

Josh Hyber