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Jasson Dominguez hit an inside fastball and lined it over the right-field wall for the first of what will likely be many home runs at Yankee Stadium.
“He has that ‘it’ factor,” the Los Angeles pitcher said. Yankees Clarke Schmidt.
Dominguez’s tiebreaking home run in the third inning and he had three hits in his first multi-hit game, leading New York to a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. The Yankees matched their longest winning streak this year at five and, with their eighth win in nine games, returned to over .500 (70-69) for the first time in three weeks.
“If you work very hard, when you get good results, it won’t be a surprise for all the work,” Dominguez said through a translator after his third home run in five major league games.
With the score 1-1, Dominguez led off the third inning and hit a 95.5 mph fastball on a 2-1 count against Beau Brieske (1-3). The ball came off the bat at 110.2 mph and had only an 18-degree launch angle. He was caught bare-handed in the front row by a fan wearing a Subway Series jersey.
When asked what he liked about Yankee Stadium, Dominguez smiled and said simply, “the right field wall.”
On a muggy night with a 90-degree temperature during the game, the 20-year-old switch-hitter was among four rookies in New York’s starting lineup. He is hitting .333 with five RBIs and a 1.143 OPS.
“He knows he’s a good player,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “There is just an easy way for him. In my experience with him, whether it’s taking BP in the academy, seeing him as a 16-year-old in the Dominican Republic, seeing how he handles himself in spring training, he enjoys playing with his teammates and I don’t. thinking overcomplicates that part. … Anxiety is the enemy of a hitter, and he doesn’t get there with much of it.”
Dominguez got his first hit batting right-handed when he singled in the sixth off lefty Tyler Holton. Shelley Duncan, Dominguez’s Triple-A manager this year, is the only other Yankee player with three home runs in his first five games, accomplishing the feat in 2007.
Focus and talent are the keys.
“It sounds like he obviously believes those things are real and therefore he’s very confident,” Yankees ace Gerrit Cole said. “He’s a humble guy, but at the same time.”
New York, which was 69-69 for the first time since 1969, is trying to avoid its first losing record since 1992. The Yankees have just 23 games left and are 6 1/2 games behind Toronto in the race for the final spot. American League wild card. also behind Texas and Boston.
Schmidt (9-8) won for the first time in five starts, allowing three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He retired 16 straight between Kerry Carpenter’s RBI single in the first and Spencer Torkelson’s single leading off the seventh. With Detroit trailing 4-1, Andy Ibanez chased Schmidt with an RBI single and Parker Meadows greeted Wandy Peralta with a sacrifice fly.
2023-09-07 05:25:51
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