The Martian Orbits 3 HR’s & Warren Shut’s ‘Em Down. NY 10 A’s 2

May 10, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0

Jasson Dominguez aka The Martian hit 3 homers, including a Grand Slam, and Will Warren pitched a 2-hit shutout into the 8th inning to lead the Yankees to a 10-2 win over the homeless Athletics in West Sacramento on a Friday night.

The switch hitting Dominguez hit his 1st homer from the left side, his 2nd homer from the right side, and the Grand Slam from the left side.

NY banged out 14 hits, including 2 each by Paul Goldschmidt (who started the scoring with a solo HR in the 3rd), Ben Rice, J.C. Escarra, and Jorbit Vivas.

Dominguez, Rice, Escarra, Vivas, and Will Warren are all rookies — in fact Dominguez and Rice are two leading Rookie of the Year candidates (although the leader right now is shortstop Jacob Wilson of Oakland who went 1-4 in the game and is batting .354 so far).

“Very impressive,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards about The Martian. “Really quality at bats from him — he’s capable of things like that. The two lefty (at bats) kind of similar, high moonshot no doubters, and the right-handed one was absolutely Scorched.”

“He was really good, man,” added Boone about Warren. “And especially being that efficient too.”

“That’s a good lineup that he’s going up against — the A’s can hit,” said Boone. “It’s a balanced lineup, right and left. He had a lot of weapons — the fastball — the 2-seam and the 4-seam were both really good tonite, and allowed him to set everything up. He threw some good changeups in there; the sweeper and the curveball were good. But it all started with the fastball and attacking successfully with that — where he wanted to go with it.”

NY improves to 22-16 and are in 1st by 3 games over 2nd place Boston. The homeless A’s drop to 19-20. The Athletics are no longer called the Oakland A’s as they are playing their games in Sutter Health Park, a minor league stadium in West Sacramento for 3 or 4 years until a new stadium in Las Vegas is built.

1. Warren Fantastic

Will Warren has been called a Michael King clone by Pitching Ninja amongst others. Warren has hot stuff that Moves, including a 95-MPH sinker and four-seam fastball, 88-MPH changeup, and 84-MPH sweeper.

He used a lot of sinkers and changeups to cut through the A’s lineup like water, pitching a 2-hit shutout into the 8th inning.

Warren entered the 8th with a 10-0 lead, got the 1st out, then allowed consecutive singles and was relieved by Mark Leiter Jr., who threw a 1-1 splitter to leading Rookie of the Year candidate Jacob Wilson that was ripped for an RBI single to left, the run charged to Warren. Wilson’s average is now .354.

Warren’s final line: 7.1 IP, 4 hits, 1 run, 7 K’s, 1 walk on 87 pitches. His record goes to 2-2 4.75.

2. Goldschmidt & The Martian Put Yanks on Top 2-0

Trent Grisham led off the game with a walk, and Aaron Judge smoked a double to left putting runners on 2nd and 3rd with nobody out. But A’s starter Osvaldo Bido got Ben Rice to hit a shallow fly to left, Paul Goldschmidt to hit a comebacker ground out, and struck out Dominguez to end the threat.

Bido, a 29-year-old, 6’3 righty who is in his 2nd year with Oakland after coming up with the Pirates — escaped singles by J.C. Escarra and Jobit Vivas in the 2nd.

But in the 3rd the Yanks got to him. Paul Goldschmidt gave Warren a 1-0 with a 417-foot solo homer to center.

Jasson “The Martian” Dominguez followed with a 398-foot homer to right center for a 2-0 Yankee lead.

3. The Martian Sac Fly Makes It 3-0 in 5th

The Yanks made it 3-0 in the 4th — after Trent Grisham led off with a walk, rookie Ben Rice ripped a 1-out single to center, and Paul Goldschmidt hit a liner to left center that JJ Bleday seemingly caught on a dive — but the Yanks challenged and it was ruled no catch — a single. Grisham had crossed home plate on the play — but the umps moved Grisham back to 3rd — saying they could review the out but not the baserunning. Boone argued vehemently, and threw his gum.

The Martian made the argument moot by hitting a drive to deep left for an easy sac fly and 3-0 Yankee lead.

4. The Martian 2nd HR Makes It 5-0 in 7th

The Yanks made it 4-0 in the 6th after a leadoff double by rookie J.C. Escarra — who moved to 3rd on a groundout by Oswaldo Cabrera, and scored on a 2-out error on a Trent Grisham grounder by 2nd baseman Urias.

And in the 7th The Martian hit his 2nd homer of the game — a 432-foot bomb to center — this one batting from the right side (which has given him trouble) against 6’3 lefty Hogan Harris for a 5-0 NY lead.

5. Rice Double, Martian Grand Slam Makes it 10-0 in 8th

The Yanks blew it open in the 8th off Harris — rookie Jorbit Vivas led off with a double, Aaron Judge was intentionally walked with 1 out, and rookie Ben Rice doubled in Vivas for a 6-0 Yankee lead.

Oakland brought in Elvis Alvarado, who walked Goldschmidt to load the bases, and The Martian hit a 387-foot Grand Slam to right center. Yanks 10 A’s 0.

6. Leiter & De Los Santos Wrap Up

Mark Leiter Jr. got the final 2 outs of the 8th (allowing the single for a run to be charged to Warren), and then Yerry De Los Santos pitched the 9th — allowing a leadoff single and 2 out single for a run, before getting a groundout for the old ballgame.

Etcetera

Former Yank Miguel Andujar has found a home with the homeless A’s as their 3rd baseman. He went 0-4 in this game to drop his slash line to 2-15-.307 (.339 OBP) in 101 at bats.

Last year as the A’s regular 3rd baseman Miggy slashed 4-30-.285 (.320 OBP) in 302 at bats — exceptional considering this era of historically low batting averages.

Aaron Judge went 1-4 with a walk (intentional) — with the double in the 1st and scored a run on The Martian’s grand slam; Judge is at .396 (.488 OBP). Anthony Volpe and Oswaldo Cabrera got the other Yankee hits.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401764537

 

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