About Last Night: JASSON Comes Up Big!

by Paul Semendinger

May 10, 2025

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About Last Night: The Yankees won big. Jasson Dominguez came up HUGE. The Yankees crushed the A's 10-2.

Quick Stats:

• Aaron Judge went 1-for-4 to drop his batting average to .396.

• Paul Goldschmidt went 2-for-4 to rasie his batting average to .345

• JASSON DOMINGUEZ went 3-for 4, with 3 homers and 7 RBI's.

• WP - Will Warren

• Will Warren pitched into the 8th inning?! Fantastic!

My Initial Takes:

• Call me old fashioned. Call me someone against progress. But baseball should go back to pre-1958 geography and not have any teams west of St. Louis. I hate west coast games.

• Ok, I understand that isn't fair to all the people west of the Mississippi, so I have a new and better idea. All west coast games should be played during the day. No west coast game should ever begin after 7:00 p.m. New York time.

• Fair enough (I can hear the protests already). I can be reasonable. How's this? No west coast game should begin after 8:00 p.m. New York Time.

• (Uggg. Calm down, everyone. I'm trying...) I changed my mind again. I don't care about other teams. If they play the Mets or Red Sox or Phillies or whomever, it makes no difference to me. How's this? No Yankees game should start after 8:00 p.m. no matter where they play. If the Yankees play in Japan, to appease the NY market, they play in the morning. If they're in California, they play in the evening. That's fair. No?

• One last thought - if they have to give games to Prime and Apple and youtube and whoever else, let those outlets show the late games from the west coast. Don't take away any games I can watch, give those games to those pay channels. They can air as many games as they'd like that begin at 10:00 p.m.

• If anyone thinks I was serious with all of that, please know that I'm joking, BUT...

  
  

• I am frustrated because... I MISSED IT. I MISSED IT ALL. UGGGG!

• I do hate when there are 10:00 p.m. start times. I have neven been a night owl. I don't even stay up for the New Year on December 31/January 1. I'm serious about that. (Why should I stay up to watch a metal ball drop and see people screaming as if something happened? It's just another day.) As such, I do not stay up for these games.

• I said in a post a few weeks ago that while its frustrating to watch the Yankees lose, I never lose sleep over them. It's a game. We need to keep this all in perspective. I'm not sacrificing a good night's sleep to watch a baseball game. I just won't do it.

• I also have to make sure that the 6:00 a.m. article is ready to go. I can't sacrifice on both ends.

• Ben Franklin said something nice about going to bed early and waking up early. As I recall, he called me wise. And healthy.

• BUT I WISH I LOST SLEEP LAST NIGHT! UGGGGG!

THE BIG STORY:

Without watching the game, reading only the box score and the play-by-play data, I think there were two huge events last night. I referenced both in the Quick Stats above. They are both super important.

First, and most notably, Jasson Dominguez hit three home runs last night. Maybe, just maybe, the young man has arrived.

Yesterday in Andy's mailbag, a reader asked Andy if he stands by his prediction that Dominguez could hit 30 homers this year. Andy basically said he did. It looked like a crazy prediction. That is, until last night...

But, it didn't begin that way. Dominguez came up in the first inning with runners on second and third and two outs. The previous two batters failed to plate either runner. This was a big moment to set the stage for the Yanks. Jasson Dominguez struck out. The Yankees failed to score.

Dominguez next came up in the third inning following a Paul Goldschmidt homer and blasted his first homer of the night to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead. He wasn't done.

In the fifth inning, with one out and a runner on third, Dominguez hit a sacrifice fly to up the lead to 3-0. That was a huge sac fly.

In the seventh inning, Jasson Dominguez hit his second homer, a two-out solo shot. That made the score 5-0. (The Yankees had scored another run in the sixth inning.)

Finally, Jasson Dominuez came up in the 8th inning... and hit a GRAND SLAM.

Oh what a night!

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Just as importantly, Will Warren pitched into the eighth inning. Warren never pitches that deep into games. He often doesn't escape the fourth inning. Getting to eight innings is like two starts for Warren. That was huge. It was gigantic.

The Yankees need starting pitching. Will Warren provided that pitching last night.

Warren allowed only four hits. He struck out seven. Most importantly, he walked only one batter.

If, if , if.... Will Warren can continue to pitch like this. And if, if if... Jasson Dominguez has arrived, the Yankees' chances just increased expodentially.

ONE LAST THOUGHT:

I hope both Warren and Dominguez have some big games that begin at normal times on the east coast.

And, no watching a reply just isn't fun for me.

NEXT UP:

The Yankees play at 4:05 p.m. today. Now that's more like it. (Was someone reading my article?)

Carlos Rodon looks to continue his great pitching.

(I asked Google Gemini to create the graphic... "Please make a character similar to Marvin the Martian with a NY hat, a super hero cape, and a baseball bat." It did a good job!)