WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The New York Yankees have long anticipated significant achievements from their young prospect, Jasson Dominguez, ever since he first set foot on the Major League Baseball stage at just 20 years old.
On a fantastic Friday evening, Dominguez made history by joining elite company as the youngest Yankee to hit three home runs in a single game. “Tonight was special,” Dominguez expressed. “When I hit the third one, I was telling myself ‘No way. There’s no way.'”
The night turned unforgettable as Dominguez launched a grand slam in the eighth inning, helping clinch a 10-2 victory and overtaking the record famously held by Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio in the Yankees’ archives. At 22 years and 91 days, Dominguez surpassed DiMaggio’s 1937 record against the St. Louis Browns by a margin of 109 days.
“That was incredible,” praised teammate Aaron Judge, a fellow Yankee who has also hit a grand slam during a three-homer game. Judge acknowledged Dominguez’s hard work, saying, “Just even going back to spring training, the guy goes out there wins a job. The work I saw him put in on the back field when no one was really looking on the defensive side, the work in the cage. To see him have a game like this tonight, three homers, is pretty special.”
Entering this season ranked as the Yankees’ top prospect, Dominguez’s experience on the major league stage in 2023 and 2024 limited his impact until Friday’s breakthrough performance. He delivered three home runs—one hit from the right side and two from the left—in addition to seven RBIs. Dominguez had only hit two home runs throughout the season up to that night and tallied eight throughout 191 at-bats since debuting in 2023.
“That’s awesome,” enthused Will Warren, remembering the times playing together in the minors. “It’s always been there. Hopefully he had the spark tonight and continues with that.”
Dominguez marked the start of his extraordinary evening with a solo home run in the third inning off Osvaldo Bido’s pitch. By the fifth inning, he contributed a sacrifice fly, later powering another solo home run against Hogan Harris in the seventh—his first right-handed home run in the majors. He crowned this marvelous performance with a grand slam off Elvis Alvarado in the eighth.
“Very impressive,” manager Aaron Boone observed. ”Just really, really quality at-bats by him. He’s capable of things like that. Obviously the two lefty kind of similar, high kind of moonshot no-doubters. And the right-handed ball was absolutely scorched.”
Dominguez joined the ranks as the fifth player this season to have hit at least three home runs in a single game. Among others, Aaron Judge managed the feat against Milwaukee on March 29, alongside Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez and St. Louis’ Ivan Herrera. Additionally, Eugenio Suarez achieved a four-homer game for Arizona versus Atlanta on April 26.