ATLANTA — Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton flashed an eye-squinting big ‘ole smile hearing Aaron Judge was at it again during the captain’s Sunday post-game interviews, first with the YES Network’s Meredith Marakovits on the field and then with the beat writers at his Truist Park visiting clubhouse locker.

Carlos Rodon, who struggled with his command throughout, was victimized by errors by Oswald Peraza and Anthony Volpe in the fifth.

Yankees superstar Aaron Judge joked to reporters that Stanton "is a singles hitter now." That's not entirely true. Stanton's power is still prodigious. But in this recent stretch, five of Stanton's last six hits have been singles.

Meanwhile, the Yankees’ offense didn’t manage to do much of anything else against Kevin Gausman. The Blue Jays’ starter ended up getting through seven innings, allowing just the one run on four hits and two walks, striking out eight.

With the Yankees mixing and matching their lineup and Giancarlo Stanton out of it more often than he would’ve been as a younger player, he knows he needs to boost his numbers as a

Aaron Boone's defended Anthony Volpe's struggles after the Yankees lost the series opener to the Blue Jays on Monday.

Raps three singles Sunday