Yankees throttle As behind Will Warren gem, Jasson Dominguezs three homers

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— At a minor league ballpark, a couple promising Yankees youngsters sure looked like legitimate major league pieces for the present and the future. Will Warren and Jasson Domínguez decided to post the best games of their young careers in a contest that might have meant as much to the 2025 Yankees as the 2030 Yankees. Warren was excellent for 7 ¹/₃ strong innings, and Domínguez decided to one-up what had been his first two-homer night by coming up with a three-homer night in an authoritative, 10-2 victory in front of 12,049 at a sold-out Sutter Health Park, the temporary home of a solid A’s team that looked overmatched Friday. In Warren’s longest outing of his career, he allowed just four hits, was charged with one run that scored after he exited and struck his way out of most of the danger he encountered, arguably the most encouraging performance of the Yankees’ season. You could also argue that Domínguez — who stroked one homer as a lefty in the third inning, one as a righty in the seventh and then another as a lefty in the eighth, a grand slam on a seven-RBI night — demonstrating his immense potential could be the best sight of the Yankees’ first month-plus. For Warren, all of the glimpses of promise that the young, learning starter has shown were stitched together with one performance.He lowered his ERA nearly by an entire run — from 5.65 to 4.75 — and showed as much hope as he has all season. Warren largely struggled for his first seven starts this campaign, keeping his rotation spot partly because the Yankees simply had no better option.

The DFA of Carlos Carrasco this week may have served as an alarm that the club could no longer afford to receive so little from the back of its rotation. The 25-year-old righty responded by keeping the A’s off-balance while striki...