MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton delighted in his moment. He walked slowly to the batter’s box in the top of the first inning and let the crescendo build. There were 26,275 folks inside Marlins Park, and it didn’t matter to anyone that probably two-thirds of them were Yankees fans grateful for his presence, not Marlins fans pining his absence.
They still made a noise he could hear in his heart.
“That was really cool,” Stanton said of the 30-second ovation, which he recognized with a wave and then a sharply-hit single into left field. “It was definitely more than I could have asked for and was one of the greatest moments of my career, that’s for sure.