Giancarlo & Yanks already

TORONTO – If Giancarlo truly cannot be stopped, it’s already difficult to fathom anyone or anything stopping the Yankees this season, either. “Giancarlo, non si puo de stopparlo!” John Sterling bellowed across the airwaves during the first inning — and again in the ninth! — of Stanton’s first game with the Bombers on Thursday, sending Twitter into a head-scratching tizzy and everyone with internet access to their favorite translation website for wishful clarification.

Yes, that turned out to be the much-anticipated “high, far and gone” call from the Yankees’ venerable radio man, and it set the tone twice for a new season that opened under first-time manager Aaron Boone with two mammoth homers from the team’s imported slugger in a crisp 6-1 victory over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

Never mind that Stanton is not even of Italian descent, but Sterling’s words — which he double-checked for pronunciation purposes with the Berlitz Language Center — are loosely translatable from Italian into “Giancarlo, you can’t be stopped” or “Giancarlo, you can’t stop him,” give or take a few conjugation liberties.

Personally, I and several fans apparently would have preferred something far more simplistic – you know, along the lines of the time-tested “Bern baby, Bern” or “Robbie Cano, ah-don’tcha know?”

Perhaps “It is high-lo, it is far-lo, it is Gone-Carlo!” But that’s why I’m on this side of the keyboard, I suppose, and not an iconic radio voice who hasn’t missed a game since 1989.

Either way, John didn’t have to wait long to share his latest signature call with Suzyn and the pinstripe-loving masses, as Stanton tattooed the second pitch he saw from lefty J.A. Happ and deposited it into the right-field seats for a quick two-run lead before most of the eyes inside Rogers Centre had dried following the touching pre-game jersey retirement of late ace Roy Halladay’s No. 32.

“He nearly took that (fan’s) chest off in right-center,” said fellow newcomer Neil Walker. “I’ve never seen a debut like that,” Dellin Betances added. “Wow,” Aaron Judge marveled through a broad smile. “My job is pretty simple right now: just get on base for G. “It’s gonna be a fun year if he keeps doing what he does.” Brett Gardner already was aboard on a botched liner by longtime New York outfielder Curtis Granderson, when Stanton quickly showed what a nightmare he and Judge figure to present to opposing pitchers if Boone continues to stack them – as well as Gary Sanchez — in the lineup, at least against left-handed pitching.

Happ had just fanned Judge for the first out of the year, when Stanton went deep on an 0-1 count for his first trip around the bases in a game that counted since Derek Jeter gift-wrapped him to the Bronx in December.

“That was cool, man. I try to be as calm as possible coming up with the anticipation of what it was going to be, but I was able to settle it down,” Stanton said. “Opening Day, first at-bat as a Yankee, but I was able to calm it down.

“It’s an interesting feeling, man, similar to my first (homer) ever… Everything felt new today.”

Judge also ripped a double in the third inning before walking and scoring on Stanton’s smoked double to left-center against reliever John Axford in the fifth. Sanchez doubled one batter later for a 4-0 cushion. The power trio finished with a combined six hits and five RBI after Stanton also took ex-Yank Tyler Clippard 434 feet to deadcenter with two down in the ninth, earning the silent treatment from his new teammates when he returned to the visiting dugout.

“Timing is so important obviously to any hitter,” Boone said, “but I think for a guy with his talent and his power, once he gets on time, he’s deadly.”