Stanton's milestone homer places him in historic company

Giancarlo Stanton hit his 99th and 100th career home runs on Monday night in Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Giancarlo Stanton is making up for lost

Giancarlo Stanton hit his 99th and 100th career home runs on Monday night in Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Giancarlo Stanton is making up for lost time. Since returning from a six-week absence due to a hamstring strain, he's homered four times in seven games, including two on Monday night against the Diamondbacks — the second of which won the game and carved him a small niche in the history books.

The Marlins were held hitless for the first five innings of Monday's game by Arizona's Patrick Corbin and fell behind 2-0. Juan Pierre broke up the no-hitter with one out in the sixth, and two batters later, Stanton clubbed a 394-foot homer to leftfield to tie the game — the only other hit Corbin surrendered over eight innings of strong work. With the score still knotted in the ninth, Stanton connected again off former teammate Heath Bell, this time bashing a 405-foot homer to rightfield:

The second home run was the 100th of his career, enabling Stanton to edge out Frank Robinson as the 10th-fastest player to the century mark by age (data from The Baseball Almanac):

Rk	Player	Team	Age
1	Mel Ott	Giants	22y 132d
2	Tony Conigliaro	Red Sox	22y 197d
3	Eddie Mathews	Braves	22y 292d
4	Alex Rodriguez	Mariners	23y 016d
5	Andruw Jones	Braves	23y 062d
6	Johnny Bench	Reds	23y 161d
7	Albert Pujols	Cardinals	23y 185d
8	Hank Aaron	Braves	23y 191d
9	Ken Griffey, Jr.	Mariners	23y 206d
10	Giancarlo Stanton	Marlins	23y 228d
11	Frank Robinson	Reds	23y 230d

That's not too shabby considering his time missed not only this year but last year as well, when he lost a month to in-season knee surgery. Accounting for lost time, Stanton's 100th homer came in his 400th game played, which ties Ryan Braun for the eighth-fastest on that scale:

Rk	Player	Team	Games to 100
1	Ryan Howard	Phillies	325
2	Ralph Kiner	Pirates	385
3T	Chuck Klein	Phillies	390
	Bob Horner	Braves	390
5	Mark McGwire	Athletics	393
6	Joe DiMaggio	Yankees	395
7	Eddie Mathews	Braves	397
8T	Ryan Braun	Brewers	400
	Giancarlo Stanton	Marlins	400
10T	Willie Mays	Giants	415
	Albert Pujols	Cardinals	415

Stanton's in the company of five Hall of Famers on each list, not to mention several other players likely to wind up there. After climbing to 11th in homers through his age-22 season, he needs 16 to tie Jones and Jimmie Foxx for 10th in homers through an age-23 season, and 21 to tie Mickey Mantle and Juan Gonzalez for eighth; Mathews and Ott are tied for first at 153.

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