Luke Voit’s two-run homer in the seventh inning Thursday put the Yankees in position to win on the night Giancarlo Stanton slugged the 300th home run of his career.
Nevertheless, a ninth-inning flush job by Dellin Betances led to an 8-7 loss to the Tigers. It took some of the glitz off Stanton’s achievement, even if he said it didn’t spoil the entire night.
“No, these types of things I get to look back forever on,’’ Stanton said when asked if the crushing loss took something away from being the fifth-fastest player in history to hit 300 homers, needing just 1,119 games.