HIT & MISS

Bombers fall in nightcap to split doubleheader

DETROIT — Giancarlo Stanton has shrugged off the negative reaction he’s gotten in The Bronx for much of this season, but there’s no doubt he’ll remember it.

Stanton showed that recall in Monday’s 4-2 loss to the Tigers in the nightcap of a split doubleheader, when he was drilled by Detroit right-hander Mike Fiers, the same pitcher who ended his 2014 season by beaning him in a game on September 11 of that season.

With the score tied at 1-1 and runners on first and second in the third inning, Fiers hit Stanton with an 88mph fastball on his left forearm.

Stanton shouted at Fiers and the two exchanged words before Stanton eventually went to first, escorted by Detroit catcher James McCann.

“I mean, if that happened before and you’re gonna come in, make sure you don’t hit me,’’ Stanton said following the Yankees loss, which snapped a fivegame winning streak that had been extended with a 7-4 win in Monday’s opener. “You’ve got to get it over the plate or make sure you don’t hit me.”

That was Stanton’s message to Fiers, who called Stanton’s reaction “childish.”

“Anybody watching the game knows I’m not throwing at him,” Fiers said. “He’s going to act how he’s going to act, but it kind of shows his character. Obviously, I wasn’t throwing at him.”

“Obviously, anything like that happens, another ball like that, no matter how many years it is, I’m not gonna be happy,’’ Stanton said. “I’m not just gonna walk to first and everything will be OK.”

The outfielder said he was aware there was no intent from Fiers — and then came up again in the sixth with the Yankees trailing by two runs.

He hit a 456-foot homer, complete with a fearsome bat flip and then pointed at Fiers as he crossed the plate.

He said he made the gesture so Fiers would “get the point.”

“I was trying to help us get back in the game,” Stanton said.

Asked if it was good revenge, Stanton said: “It was nice. A win would be better. Oh well.”

The Yankees didn’t take advantage after Stanton got hit, either, as Gleyber Torres hit a slow roller that Fiers handled for the third out.

The Tigers took the lead again in the bottom of the fourth, as McCann’s double knocked in Leonys Martin. McCann mae it 3-1 when he scored on Jeimer Candelario’s pop-up down the left-field line fell, despite Miguel Andujar, Torres and Clint Frazier all having a play on the ball.

“When you look at it, it’s a little tougher play [than it seems],” Aaron Boone said. “Gleyber [who was making his MLB debut at shortstop] was shaded up the middle and it was a long way for him and Frazier was shaded in the gap. It was a little bit in no-man’s land. If we communicate well, that’s a play that we can and should make.”

They didn’t have any of those issues in the first game, as Luis Severino tossed eight splendid innings, the latest in a long line of gems from the right-hander. The Yankees haven’t lost with Severino on the mound since April 10 in Boston.

“He is our ace and there is an expectancy that comes with that,’’ Austin Romine said after Severino held Detroit to two runs — one earned — in eight innings. He struck out 10 and walked none.

Greg Bird put the Yankees up 2-1 with a leadoff homer, the first of six consecutive hits off Drew VerHagen to open the inning.

Romine blew the game open with a three-run homer to make it 7-1.

Now, the two teams that brawled last season, don’t face each other again until September. Whether Stanton faces Fiers again remains to be seen.

“It doesn’t matter,” Stanton said. “We’ll get there when we get there.”