Jasson Dominguezs position change is still an adventure in progress

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees from spring training CLEARWATER, Fla.— Yankees manager Aaron Boone pledged to give Jasson Domínguez a “full runway” this spring to learn left field. It is still very early, but Domínguez might need all the space he can get before liftoff. In his fourth spring training game, “The Martian” experienced his second adventure in left field as he adjusts to a position that haunted him last September and will require a learning curve. On Thursday, Domínguez could not finish off a tough play, a deep drive going in and out of his glove on what became a double from Edmundo Sosa. In the third inning, Sosa crushed one that Domínguez chased with his back to the plate.

He reached the warning track on the run and might have misjudged the ball’s trajectory, leaving his feet with a small hop that was not needed before he reached the wall.A mid-air Domínguez tried to scoop the ball out of the air, and it deflected off his glove and onto the track. “I got a good route.

I jumped to catch it,” Domínguez said after the 7-7 tie with the Phillies at BayCare Ballpark.“I reached for it.

The ball touched my glove, and it came out.” The play was not routine and was not an error, but it was a play that the Yankees will hope he can make in late March presuming Domínguez is, as expected, the Opening Day left fielder. “That’s about as tough a play as you’re going to have,” Boone said.“I guess it’s always a story every one that JD has, but that one’s top-spinning over your head, bullet, tough play. “So we’ll look at it.

We still got work to do, obviously, but that’s about as tough of a chance as you’re going to have.” Every chance Domínguez has will be scrutinized after he struggled in left field last September, which resulted in the Yankees sticking with Alex Verdugo at the position for the po...