Yankees’ Gary Sanchez has three strikeouts on winter debut

The New York Yankees allowed catcher Gary Sanchez to play winter ball in the Dominican Republic. They want him to try to regain the offensive rhythm that made him perhaps the most feared catcher in baseball from 2016 to 2019, keeping in mind that the 2020 season with the Bombers was a struggle from start to end.

Sanchez made his long-awaited debut in the LIDOM with Toros del Este, a team that didn’t have the privilege of writing Sanchez’s name in the lineup since the 2013 winter season. The Yankees’ backstop didn’t have a particularly good showing on Friday night, but he is just getting started, after all.

In five trips to the plate, the New York Yankees’ slugger went 1-for-5 with three…