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NEW YORK – Jasson Dominguez has played in just 66 big league games, but he’s got three distinct personal home run highlights.
In addition to the homer in his first big-league at-bat in 2023, and his three-home run game earlier this month, Dominguez now has a walk-off shot on his list.
“It was awesome. It was special,’’ said Dominguez, whose one-out, no-doubt solo blast to right off Texas Rangers closer Luke Jackson lifted the Yankees to a 4-3 win at raw, drizzly Yankee Stadium.
“To kind of battle all the way to the end…that was pretty special,’’ Aaron Judge said Wednesday night after the first-place Yankees’ 10th win in their last 13 games.
Until it got to the Texas bullpen in the eighth, a vintage Jacob deGrom exited with a one-run lead.
“That’s one of the greatest pitchers of our generation,’’ said Judge, so “that was a big time win for us’’ to battle deGrom for seven innings and still have a chance.
There was a wink and a nod between Judge and deGrom, acknowledging their Hall-of-Fame level battle on Wednesday night.
That was a little game-within-the game moment, after Judge skied a pop out on a windy-cool-misty night.
But Judge maintained his .400 (now .402) batting average with a sharp, game-tying, RBI single off Jackson in the eighth with two out.
Cody Bellinger had already extended his consecutive hitting streak to a career-high 15 games before launching a solo homer off deGrom in the seventh, cutting Texas’ lead to 3-2.
Jacob deGrom’s return to New York
Back in the Big Apple, this was a familiar version of deGrom, who yielded two runs and struck out nine with his electric mix of 98-mph fastballs and devastating changeups and sliders.
Not since 2018 had deGrom, the standout former Mets starter, pitched in the Bronx. And his last start within the city limits was in 2022 at Citi Field, during the Mets’ wild card series against San Diego.
“We pressured him enough, but he was really good,’’ said manager Aaron Boone of deGrom, in his first full season following his second Tommy John surgery. “A really good, gritty win.’’
For five innings, it was a contrasting battle of starters, between deGrom and Yanks’ lefty swingman Ryan Yarbrough, who struck out eight.
“Mix and match, just keep guys in between things,’’ said Yarbrough, making his third start of 2025 and getting to 80 pitches, featuring a sharp changeup amid his array of soft stuff.
Yarbrough yielded just one run over five innings, the first of Jake Burger’s two solo shots.
“Just enjoying every moment of it,” Yarbrough said of his hybrid role with the Yanks. “And being able to do it here is fantastic.”
Yankees’ reliever Fernando Cruz nursing a sore shoulder
The lately ineffective Ian Hamilton yielded Sam Haggerty’s solo homer in the seventh, a spot ordinarily saved for Fernando Cruz.
But Cruz is dealing with a shoulder issue, Boone said after the game.
An MRI showed “nothing significant,’’ but the right-handed Cruz – who felt something exiting Saturday’s appearance against the Mets – is at least an injury-list candidate.
The Yanks (29-19) have taken the first two games of this set against Texas (25-25), but Thursday afternoon’s scheduled series finale is in jeopardy due to a rainy forecast.
Yankees: No immediate plans for Ben Rice at 3B
Ben Rice has taken grounders at third base during pregame settings, but there’s “not much more than that right now,’’ said manager Aaron Boone.
Once Giancarlo Stanton (elbow tendinitis) is activated from the injured list, Rice’s at-bats at designated hitter will shrink, though he’s still likely to see a lot of regular play shuttling between DH and first base.
And once second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (oblique strain) is activated, DJ LeMahieu figures to slot at third base, with the lefty-hitting Jorbit Vivas also getting starts at the position.
Rice has never played a pro inning at third. “(We’ll) never rule anything out,’’ said Boone, who likes Rice’s movements at third, but “it’s a lot to ask’’ right now.
Generally speaking, “we always just want to stick someone at third. It’s not that simple,’’ said Boone, a former big-league third baseman.
Updates on Giancarlo Stanton, Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Stanton is nearing the end of his running program and continues to hit off the high velocity machine, but there’s no announced target date for his return. Based on his progress, early June is our estimate.
Chisholm Jr. is “just kind of building that strength’’ back and might soon hit off the high velocity machine.
Though he’s “kind of asymptomatic’’ for an oblique strain, “there’s certain checkpoints you have to get through’’ Boone said of Chisholm Jr.’s injury.
The lefty-hitting infielder would probably require “a game or two’’ on a rehab assignment, but that’s yet to be determined.
Yankees miss Jack Leiter this series
Jack Leiter’s turn did not come up this week at Yankee Stadium.
The Texas right-handed Leiter – with a 3-2 record and 4.25 ERA in seven starts – is the son of former Met and Yankee pitcher Al Leiter, the nephew of Yankees’ reliever Mark Leiter Jr., and a friend and former Delbarton School teammate of Anthony Volpe.
“To me, he’s kind of been like a sponge of information, just trying to absorb everything from the older guys,’’ said Kyle Higashioka, the ex-Yankees catcher now with Texas.
Working with the 25-year-old Leiter since spring training, Higashioka said he’s established a good rapport with the Rangers’ first-round draft pick (second overall) of 2021.
“Every single start he’s learned more and more about himself and he’s just continued to get better,’’ said Higashioka. “That’s a really good sign for us.’’