Jasson Dominguez Getting CT Scan After Taking a 89 MPH Cutter to the Elbow and the Yankees Aren't Saying Much Yet

Jasson Dominguez took a Nathan Eovaldi fastball straight to the left elbow in the fourth inning of the Yankees' 3-0 loss to Texas on Wednesday, and now he's heading for a CT scan in New York to figure out how bad it actually is. The X-rays didn't tell the whole story, so the team is pulling out the bigger imaging gun to get answers.

The Hit That Changed Everything

Eovaldi's 89.1 mph cutter found Dominguez's elbow, and the kid went down hard. He was hunched over in pain but tough enough to stay in the game at first after the trainer looked him over. Then he came out before the next half-inning, with Max Schuemann taking over in left field. That's when you know it's serious, right? If the player can't push through, it matters.

Dominguez tried to downplay it in the postgame: "It got me right in the elbow. As of right now, I don't feel any concern. Right when it hit me, my arm went numb a little bit, but since then it's just been swelling." But numbness followed by swelling? That's the kind of thing that gets you a CT scan in a hurry.

What the Yankees Are Saying (and Not Saying)

Manager Aaron Boone kept it cautiously optimistic but admitted nobody knows anything yet. "You hate seeing that. Hopefully, the tests reveal not much and it's just bruising, and we'll work through it. But unknown at this point." Translation: we hope it's nothing, but we're not betting the farm on it.

Dominguez was called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Monday and had just started to get his feet wet in the majors. He went 1-for-9 across three games before Wednesday's injury. The 23-year-old switch hitter debuted with four homers in eight games back in September 2023, but he had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow after that. Last season he batted .257 with 10 homers and 47 RBIs in 123 games, though his playing time dropped after the All-Star break.

The CT scan on Thursday will tell the Yankees whether this is a quick turnaround or something that derails the kid's momentum right when he's trying to prove he belongs in the big leagues.

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