It’s no secret Big G has been big time in the MLB playoffs. But historically speaking, few players have been more big time in October than the Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton struck the 13th postseason home run of his career in Monday night’s ALCS Game 1 win over the Cleveland Guardians, moving him into a tie for fifth place on the Yankees’ all-time list. Only Bernie Williams (22), Derek Jeter (20), Mickey Mantle (18) and Babe Ruth (15) hit more postseason homers in pinstripes, while teammate Aaron Judge entered Tuesday night’s ALCS Game 2 with 13 as well. Stanton’s 13th home run came in his 32nd postseason game, all with the Yankees. The other five Yankees with as many or more homers than Stanton played in at least 36 playoff games with the franchise. “[I’m] just hyper-focused,” Stanton, 34, said of his postseason success following Monday’s 5-2 win. “I understand how important each pitch, each moment is. I understand that you’re not always going to be successful in those moments, but anything I can do, any bit of information or video or swings, [I’ll do] anything I can do to be in my best spot during this moment.” Monday’s blast — Stanton’s second of these playoffs — put the 6-6 slugger in a tie for 22nd place on the all-time MLB postseason home run list. Among batters with at least 100 postseason plate appearances, Stanton entered Tuesday with the fourth-best playoff slugging percentage at .661, trailing only Ruth (.744), Lou Gehrig (.731) and Randy Arozarena (.690). Stanton’s 1.009 OPS through 32 playoff games ranked 10th, one spot ahead of Albert Pujols’ .995. His hard-hit rate of 46.4% ranked second in postseason history, behind only Jason Giambi’s 53.8%. “He’s been great in the postseason with us, simple as that, and had some epic runs,” manager Aaron Boone said Tuesday. “I think the postseason success he’s had has served him well. That experience has served him well. He knows how to be ready. He knows how to prepare. He knows how to slow things down, and we’re seeing that in his at-bats so far this postseason.” Stanton entered Tuesday as one of two players to hit multiple postseason home runs with an exit velocity of at least 114 mph since 2015, when MLB introduced Statcast. Stanton boasted five such homers, while the Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber had six. Stanton’s 13 home runs in 32 games matched Alex Rodriguez’s postseason home run total in 76 playoff games. Judge entered Tuesday with the same number in 49 playoff games. Only 11 players have hit more home runs in a single postseason than Stanton’s six in 2020. Stanton reached that total in seven games that year, as the Yankees appeared in only the Wild Card round and the ALDS before being eliminated. Stanton was fresh off of a 59-homer, NL MVP campaign with the Miami Marlins when the Yankees acquired him in a blockbuster trade before the 2018 season. With his arrival came sky-high expectations and frequent scrutiny from fans. “I think he learned how to deal with all that noise [in 2018] and realized, as good as anyone I’ve seen, that [it] is just noise,” Boone said. “He’s mentally really tough. He’s really, really disciplined. He’s very unique and different in the way he does certain things, but he is mentally disciplined, and that’s why I think he’s excellent at — no matter what’s going on in the season — he doesn’t care about the noise.” Despite dealing with lower-body issues throughout his Yankee tenure, Stanton has hit at least 24 home runs in five of his six non-COVID-shortened regular seasons in pinstripes. In 15 MLB seasons, Stanton boasts 429 home runs in 6,025 at-bats over 1,649 games, making him MLB’s active home run leader. Stanton has averaged one home run in every 14.04 at-bats and in every 3.84 games in his regular-season career, compared to every 8.85 at-bats and in every 2.46 games in the postseason to begin Tuesday. He hopes to top his postseason résumé this year with his first World Series ring. “We need to get it done,” Stanton said on the eve of the ALDS. “There’s so many obstacles or reasons or rhymes that it hasn’t happened in the years past. We have the group to do it. Now we’ve got to put it together.”