It brought up memories of Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s first major league homer, which came off Verlander in Houston on Sept. 1, 2023. <\/p>\n
Dom\u00ednguez said he \u201cof course\u201d was thinking of that shot when he went up against Verlander again Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Jasson Dominguez belts a homer off Justin Verlander in the fourth inning of the Yankees\u2019 spring training loss to the Tigers at Joker Marchant Stadium on March 12, 2026. Mike Watters-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Ben a long time<\/p>\n
Ben Rice is 0-for-8 with four strikeouts and a walk in his past three games. <\/p>\n
Defensively, however, he has looked fine so far at first base, which is the Yankees\u2019 main concern for him this spring.<\/p>\n
![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260310_jhp_db1_0003.jpg\")
New York Yankees first baseman Ben Rice (22) prepares to take batting practice before a game against the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training at BayCare Ballpark. Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Caught my eye<\/p>\n
Max Schuemann, looking to compete for a backup infielder spot, didn\u2019t help his case when he was picked off first base by Kenley Jansen.<\/p>\n
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Friday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n
Look for Cody Bellinger at first base, Ryan McMahon at shortstop and Ryan Weathers on the mound when the Yankees visit the Braves in North Port, Fla., at 1:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Yankees spring training on Thursday: D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu Jasson Dom\u00ednguez blasted a homer off Justin Verlander from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,731,3289,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-621240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-jasson-dominguez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkyankees","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116219793791268610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}