ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jasson Dominguez checked off one other field on Wednesday whereas persevering with his comeback from Tommy John surgical procedure.
The 21-year-old Yankee began his first sport within the outfield after strictly DHing in the course of the first two weeks of his rehab project, taking part in 5 innings in middle area for Double-A Somerset.
By means of 11 rehab video games, the switch-hitting Dominguez has hit .286 with an .810 OPS, now including defensive obligations to his plate.
“He’s in a great place,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned earlier than the Yankees’ 2-1 win over the Angels on Wednesday evening. “He’s had a extremely good rehab, in that it’s gone easy, he hasn’t been rushed, he’s been constructed up correctly. So he’s in a reasonably good place.”
Dominguez’s 20-day rehab clock runs till June 2, after which the Yankees must both activate him onto the key league roster or choice him to the minor leagues.
The latter stays the seemingly situation, barring an damage to the big-league membership — although even then, Dominguez will solely have a handful of video games within the outfield earlier than his rehab project expires, that means he would nonetheless seemingly want some extra time at Triple-A to totally construct up his workload.
As soon as he’s all the best way again from a bodily standpoint, Dominguez can function insurance coverage in case one in all Aaron Decide, Juan Soto, Alex Verdugo or Giancarlo Stanton will get injured.
When Soto hit his fifteenth house run of the season Tuesday evening, he joined Decide (17 house runs) for under the seventh time in franchise historical past {that a} pair of teammates have hit a minimum of 15 house runs by means of the Yankees’ first 56 video games of a season.
The final to do it have been Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira in 2011.
Earlier than them, it was Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961, Mantle and Yogi Berra in 1956, and Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1927, ’28 and ’30.
Soto had an prolonged dialog with two umpires throughout Tuesday’s sport, which Boone mentioned Wednesday was in regards to the pitch clock being in his sight line in middle area at Angel Stadium.
Boone added that his understanding is that the placement of the clock is inside regulation.
Infielder Kevin Smith — outrighted off the roster Tuesday to make room for DJ LeMahieu — modified course Wednesday and accepted the project to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as an alternative of turning into a free agent.
