Update on Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton leaving game with calf injury

HOUSTON — Giancarlo Stanton walked from first base to second base after Jazz Chisholm worked a sixth-inning walk Friday night, then the Yankees slugger stood on the base and waved an arm to his dugout.

“I wasn’t sure what he was motioning,” manager Aaron Boone said after the Yankees blew out the Astros 12-4 to make it seven wins in a row.

A long J.C. Escarra at-bat later, everyone knew.

When Escarra skied to flyball to left field for a single that banged off the wall, Stanton slowly advanced to third base and stopped there when it looked like he could have scored easily.

While a Yankees athletic trainer headed Stanton’s way, he walked off the field, into the third-base dugout and then straight to a clubhouse training room.

A few minutes later, the Yankees announced Stanton departed with lower right leg tightness.

Boone called it calf tightness after the game.

“Hopefully we got ahead of anything serious, but we’ll just see where he’s at (Saturday),” Boone said.

It’s believed Stanton first felt the tightness after he ran out his sixth-inning single.

“I think he didn’t want to push it,” Boone said. “He felt it when he was at second.”

Stanton, who was getting treatment during post-game media availability, will provide an update before Saturday night’s game.

Chisholm isn’t overly concerned.

“Not a lot,” he said. “I think he’s gonna be good. He just, I think, got a little tight. You don’t want to risk it with that guy.

“He hits 30 home runs in 60 to 70 games in the year every year, so we need that bat in our lineup and I think he’s gonna be great.”

Stanton missed a lot of games with calf, hamstring and quad strains in past seasons, the last time in 2024.