Jasson Dominguez's three homers power Yankees to 10-2 win over Athletics

Jasson Dominguez smashed three of the Yankees’ four home runs and Will Warren had the best start of his career, as New York beat the Athletics, 10-2, on Friday night in West Sacramento.

Here are the takeaways..

-The Yankees offense could not capitalize on a fast start. Aaron Judge — after having his 38-game on-base streak snapped on Wednesday — started a new streak with a first-pitch double off the left-field wall that put Trent Grisham (who reached on a walk) to third with no outs. But Ben Rice (popout), Paul Goldschmidt (groundout to the pitcher) and Jasson Dominguez (strikeout) could not get the runners home.

They couldn’t get it done in the second inning either. With runners on second and third with two outs, Grisham popped out to end the threat.

New York figured out the solution to their clutch-hitting problems: hit home runs. Goldschmidt (417 feet) and Dominguez (398 feet) would go back-to-back with two outs in the third to put the Yanks up 2-0. But that wouldn’t be the end of the homers.

-Dominguez would have himself a day at the plate. In addition to his solo homer, he would go yard a second time in the seventh, this time from the right side. The Martian took a Hogan Harris curveball 431 feet over the center field wall. The young outfielder finished 3-for-4 with seven RBI and had his first multi-homer game as a big leaguer, and his seventh-inning longball was his first from the right side.

His at-bat in the eighth with the bases loaded saw him launch his first career grand slam. He also became the youngest player in Yankees history to have a three-homer game.

-Warren was dealing early. He struck out four in his first three innings. The young right-hander wouldn’t allow his first base runner (walk) until one out in the fourth inning. After a single, Warren would pitch out of the jam by striking out Shea Langeliers and JJ Bleday in succession. After that, Warren was in cruise control, pitching into the sixth inning when he allowed a leadoff double. Warren settled down, getting the next three batters out and pitching through six innings for the first time in his big league career.

Warren would pitch into the eighth inning, but it was noticeable he was out of gas. He was pulled after allowing back-to-back singles with one out. One of his runners would come around to score after Mark Leiter Jr. came in, but the book was closed on Warren’s night pretty quickly.

The young hurler pitched 7.1 innings (87 pitches/59 strikes), allowing one run on four hits, one walk and striking out seven batters.

-There was an odd series of events in the fifth that could have cost the Yankees a run. With men on first and second, and one out, Goldschmidt lofted a ball into shallow left-center field. Bleday clearly trapped the ball and Grisham ran home, but Rice was called out at second on the force because the third base umpire ruled Bleday had caught it, and he went back to first. After a lengthy discussion, the umps ruled it a trap, but sent Grisham back to third and Rice to second.

Dominguez would get Grisham home anyway with a sac fly.

-Every Yankee in the starting lineup — aside from Grisham — had at least one hit with Rice (2-5), Dominguez (4-3), Goldschmidt (2-4), J.C. Escarra (2-4) and Jorbit Vivas (2-5) picking up multi-hit games. Judge finished 1-for-4 with a walk as his batting average dipped to .396, the first time he was batting under .400 since April 22.

Game MVP: Jasson Dominguez

Hitting three homers and driving in seven runs will get you this honor 99.9 percent of the time. (Kudos to Warren, though)

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What’s next

The Yankees and Athletics play the middle of their three-game set on Saturday afternoon. First pitch is set for 4:05 p.m.

Carlos Rodon (4-3, 2.96 ERA) will take on JP Sears (4-2, 2.93 ERA).

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