New York — They were booing Giancarlo Stanton at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night after he struck out in his first two at-bats.
In the bottom of the sixth, they stood on their feet and begged him for a curtain call.
After the Tigers missed turning an inning-ending double-play by inches, Stanton locked onto a spinning slider up and over the plate from reliever Jose Cisnero and destroyed it. The ball left his bat with an exit velocity of 116.8 mph and flew 451 feet to the back of the left-field bleachers.
The blast, the 400th of Stanton’s career, broke a 1-1 tie and sent the Yankees on to a 5-1 win in the first of three in the Bronx.