HOUSTON — As of last weekend in Chicago, Yankees manager Aaron Boone shot down Giancarlo Stanton moving this week from right field to play the shorter left field at Daikin Park, which is the new name for the Astros’ ballpark.

Want to take one guess who the Yankees’ starter in left was for Tuesday night’s series opener?

Indeed it was Stanton making his first start as a left fielder since September 2023 at Fenway Park in Boston.

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What changed?

“We just kind of talked through it,” Boone said of Stanton, who went from only being a designated hitter since 2022 to seeing time in right after right fielder Aaron Judge returned on Aug. 5 only a DH after 10 days on the injured list with a right elbow flexor strain. “The reason I w

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