Slumping Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton getting a whiff of fan frustration

Exasperated, caller Joe from Fair Lawn seemed to speak for every New York Yankees fan on the No. 1 topic in town. “He is awful!” Joe hollered on WFAN radio. Not that Giancarlo Stanton needed to listen to the powerhouse sports talk station Monday to figure out how the masses felt.

The slumping slugger heard the boos a day earlier at Yankee Stadium when he went 0 for 7, struck out five times and stranded nine runners in an 8-7, 12-inning loss to Baltimore.

“They’re not going to cheer for that, so what do you expect?” Stanton said, adding, “got to settle down a little bit.”

The reigning NL MVP had never fanned five times in a pro game until doing it twice in a week. Those whiffs put him halfway to the career record for 5K games, held by Sammy Sosa.

They also left him hitting .167 with 20 strikeouts in 42 at-bats in his first year with New York. His first week at home: 3 for 28, fanning 16 times.

As some Yankees amateur historians have already pointed out — the great Joe DiMaggio struck out 13 times all season in 1941, when he had a record 56-game hitting streak.

“Just got to look at it as a bad week. Season is much longer than a week,” Stanton said.

“I’ll figure it out. Get to the video. Figure it out,” he said.

Playing for a team where pressure is as much a part of the uniform as the pinstripes, Stanton won’t get much of a mental break.

Following a day off, the Yankees open a three-game series at Fenway Park on Tuesday. The rival Red Sox have won eight in a row and have the best record in baseball. Set to pitch for Boston: Chris Sale, David Price and Rick Porcello.

Acquired from Miami in December after hitting a major league-leading 59 home runs, and in the midst of a $325 million, 13-year contract, Stanton lived up to the lofty expectations on opening day.

He launched two long homers and doubled at Toronto, and the smashing start left Yankees fans giddy, wondering how many homers might Stanton and teammate Aaron Judge combine to hit. Like, 120? So far, Stanton has three and Judge two. They’re certainly attracting fan interest. Sunday’s loss was the team’s highest-rated weekend telecast on YES in six years, averaging 405,000 viewers.

“Stanton’s a great hitter,” Judge said. “It’s still early in the season. We’re going to look back on this in August and laugh about it.” “Everybody goes through it,” he said.