SAN FRANCISCO — Before Juan Soto could deliver the big swing, he needed Gleyber Torres and Jose Trevino to do the small things to help make sure the ninth inning got to him.
With Soto due up fourth, Torres roped a leadoff single against Giants closer Camilo Doval before Trevino busted it down the line to prevent a double play, flipping the lineup over on the way to a comeback 7-5 win on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park.
Anthony Volpe followed with an RBI triple — on which Trevino had to break out the wheels again, scoring all the way from first “in the fastest gear that I have,” he said — before Soto put the Yankees ahead with a two-run shot.
“Obviously I know who’s hitting behind me and I know how important it is for those guys to get up to the plate,” Trevino said. “It’s just effort and playing for the guys in this clubhouse, plain and simple.”
The Yankees had been quiet in the late innings Sunday until the ninth, when Torres sparked the rally with a single up the middle off Doval that manager Aaron Boone said “you could feel” in the dugout. Trevino followed with his hustle to send the Yankees on their way.
“It’s little things like that that might get overlooked, but we all see it and it leads to a big inning,” Aaron Judge said.
Jasson Dominguez’s rehab assignment reached its maximum of 20 days on Sunday, meaning the Yankees will have to make a move on his next step, which is expected to mean optioning him to Triple-A.
Dominguez’s rehab from Tommy John surgery has gone well, but he has only played three games in the outfield (the rest have been as DH) and there is no spot for him to get regular playing time on the Yankees’ current roster.
In 14 games through Sunday (between Single-A Tampa and Double-A Somerset), Dominguez was batting .333 (17-for-51) with four home runs on his rehab assignment.
Art Shallock, the oldest living retired major leaguer and former Yankees left-hander, spent time chatting with Boone and players in the dugout Sunday morning.
The Yankees had honored Schallock when he turned 100 in April, sending him a jersey signed by the team.
“Walking into Yankee Stadium — that was the greatest thrill for me,” Schallock said.
Schallock played for the Yankees from 1951-55 and won a pair of World Series. He was roommates with Yogi Berra as a rookie, played with Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle and remembered Ted Williams as the toughest hitter he faced — though he noted that Williams never got a hit off him. How did he get the Hall of Famer out?
“Junk,” Schallock said with a chuckle.
On Lou Gehrig Day — with all teams wearing a No. 4 decal on their jerseys — Boone was optimistic about how ALS awareness has taken off in the past few years.
“I do feel like we’ve done a better job in our world but certainly as a sport of shining a light on a disease that’s named after one of the all-time greats in our sport,” Boone said. “Hopefully we can continue to do that. Hopefully we can continue to move the needle towards ultimately finding a cure. But an awful disease and I’m glad we’re able to bring attention to it, especially in our sport.”
