Plenty of hype has surrounded the Yankees’ youth movement late in 2023, but the most anticipated of all was the promotion of much-ballyhooed prospect Jasson Domínguez after only nine games at Triple-A. It was an aggressive move, but with the season lost, New York decided that the best way to challenge him would be to bump him up to The Show.
Domínguez got the stat in center field tonight, and in his MLB debut, he was tasked with facing an all-time great in Justin Verlander. With two outs, the inning could have been over when Giancarlo Stanton took a 3-2 slider that easily could have been a called third strike.