In the debut of one of the most hyped prospects of all time, Dominguez got a look at just seven pitches and put four in play. He was there to swing and swing hard.
Jasson Dominguez did not leave much time for evaluation.
In his first at-bat — in which he smacked his first career home run — he showed off a stroke with impressive, opposite-field power on the second major league pitch he saw. In his next three chances at the plate, he recorded three quick outs.
In the debut of one of the most hyped prospects of all time, Dominguez got a look at just seven pitches and put four in play.
He was there to swing and swing hard.
“He’ll never forget that,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said about the homer from “The Martian” after Friday’s Yankees win at Minute Maid Park. “He wasn’t waiting around too much. He swung at the first strike almost every at-bat.
