Seven great Jason Giambi Moments in pinstripes

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Former first baseman Jason Giambi returns to Yankee Stadium on Sunday, making his first appearance at Yankees' Old-Timers Day just shy of 10 years after donning the pinstripes for the final time.

The "Giambino" had many memorable moments in pinstripes, making six playoff appearances and reaching the 2003 World Series during his time, and to commemorate his seven years with the Yankees, we look back at seven special moments from No. 25.

SIGNATURE YANKEE MOMENT

Giambi's ninth home run, and first grand slam, as a Yankee couldn't have come at a better time. On May 17, 2002, the Yankees and Twins played to a 9-9 tie through regulation before Sterling Hitchcock allowed three runs in the top of the 14th inning. In the bottom, though, the Bombers loaded the bases with one out, and with one swing, Giambi unloaded them and gave his team an improbable 13-12 win. 

CRACKING PEDRO'S ARMOR

Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS featured one of the most famous home runs in Yankees history, and the most notable of now-manager Aaron Boone's career. But, before Booney's extra-innings heroics, the "Giambino" went deep twice off Pedro Martinez to bring the Yankees back from a big deficit; his solo shot to lead off the fifth made it a 4-1 game, and two innings later, a two-out solo homer made it a 4-2 game.

CC-ING EYES

Jason Giambi and CC Sabathia were never teammates in pinstripes, but one of Giambi's biggest hits of 2003 came off the lefty. On July 19, Giambi came up with two outs, the bases loaded, and the Yankees down 4-3 in the fifth - and the result was a seeing-eye single up the middle that cleared the bases and gave the Bombers a 6-4 lead. They went on to win 7-4, claiming their 60th win of the season. 

AMAZIN' WALKOFF

The Subway Series is always a big deal, and sweeping one is even bigger. The Mets had a chance in the June 2005 edition, but once again, Giambi played the hero in the June 26 finale. With the Yankees down 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth, three straight men reached base to lead off the inning, and Giambi ended the game with a two-run walk-off hit into the right-center field gap, ending the sweep idea and Braden Looper's run of 14 straight save chances converted.

A ROLE IN THE MASSACRE

If Yankees-Mets is a big deal, Yankees-Red Sox is huge, and Giambi came up as such many times against Boston. On August 20, 2006, specifically, the "Giambino" cranked two homers in a Yankees win, a three-run blast that gave the Yankees the lead in the fourth and then a tenth-inning solo shot that spurred the Bombers a win in extras. Even bigger? The win gave the Yankees the first four games in what was a five-game set in Boston, and they'd complete the sweep, dubbed the "Boston Massacre Part 2," the next day.

EUTAW, EUTAW
The Yankees missed the playoffs in Giambi's final season of 2008, but he still provided many highlights - including this one in one of his final trips to Baltimore, a May 28 solo homer that was his second in two nights to leave the confines of Camden Yards and reach Eutaw Street.

A FINAL WALKOFF

Giambi hit 32 homers in that 2008 season, and his 12th was his final walk-off dinger as a Yankee. It came on June 5 against Toronto, and it was Giambi's only at-bat of the game; he came up as a pinch-hitter with one on and two outs in the ninth, and this blast just inside the foul pole turned an 8-7 deficit into a 9-8 win.