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IT DIDN’T TAKE long for some Yankees fans to turn on their newest superstar. Welcome to New York, Giancarlo. One minute, they love you. The next minute, they hate you. Just four games after belting two homers in his Yankee debut, Giancarlo Stanton struck out five times — posting a Platinum Sombrero in his first game wearing the pinstripes — and was booed late in the Bombers’ 11-4 blowout victory of the Rays on Tuesday in The Bronx.

Give Stanton credit, though, for being accountable for his abysmal performance.

“I was awful today,” Stanton admitted. “You put up a performance like that you should get some boos.”

Stanton went 0-for-5 with five Ks — the most in a game in his career — tying the single-game franchise mark. The last Yankee to strike out five times was Mark Teixeira on June 5, 2010 in Toronto.

The reigning NL MVP heard faint boos after his fourth strikeout in the seventh inning, and they grew louder after his fifth and final K in the eighth.

But the rest of the Bombers were able to pick No. 3 hitter Stanton up — especially the man following him, Didi Gregorius, who notched two homers and a career-high eight RBI.

“That’s what a cleanup hitter does,” Stanton quipped. “You clean up the garbage in front of you.”

Stanton certainly isn’t the first Yankee to get booed. And he won’t be the last. Gregorius himself got off to a slow start in his first year replacing Derek Jeter and heard about it.

And, of course, there was A-Rod, who was hitting just .160 on April 18, 2004 — following his own blockbuster deal to The Bronx.

So Stanton gets it. He’s owed $265 million over the next decade — if he doesn’t opt out. So he’s going to have to deliver on the field and help the Bombers earn World Series championship No.28 to justify that kind of money and earn the admiration of his demanding new fanbase.

“It was cool,” Stanton said of his Yankee Stadium debut. “At-bats aside, I enjoyed it. It was a cool atmosphere. I know it wasn’t ideal weather conditions for the fans, but they showed out.”

With beloved homegrown cornerstone Aaron Judge cemented in right, Stanton has had to adjust to playing left and DH. His new teammates have helped him feel comfortable in the clubhouse.

“Everyone’s been booed. It’s no big deal. He knows that,” Judge said. “It’s just you have to go out there and do your job the next day. If you don’t have it one day, you can’t complain, can’t mope, which he’s not. He knows how it is. He didn’t have his best stuff, so he’s going to keep working and get ’em tomorrow." aron Boone wasn’t concerned.

“It just goes with the territory,” Boone said of Stanton’s rough day and the boos that followed. “I like when the big boy doesn’t hit and we’re able to score 11 runs, because there’s going to be a lot of days where we hop on his back.

“I actually thought he looked OK at the plate. I thought he was close on a couple. When you’re a big-time slugger, that’s going to happen. The fact that we were still able to score 11, I don’t even blink at it.”

Stanton didn’t seem to blink either, unfazed by the boos.

If he hits as many homers over the short porch in right-field as everyone expects him to, those boos should turn into cheers rather quickly. If not, well, it can only get worse.

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