LAKELAND, Fla. -- Jackson Jobe laid out his aggressive approach after his previous outing last Saturday against the Blue Jays, which included three fastballs past All-Star slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

“I’m done with trying to dot a gnat’s [butt],” Jobe said afterwards. “Here’s my stuff. If you hit it, great. Odds are, you’re probably not.”

On Thursday, Jobe -- the Tigers’ top prospect and MLB Pipeline’s No. 5 prospect overall – challenged the Yankees, and the Yankees hit him more than the Blue Jays did. In the process, Jobe tried to strike a balance between pinpointing a gnat’s backside and leaving pitches in hittable locations.

“My fastball command wasn't great,” Jobe said, “but the homers weren't on fastballs.”

Jobe’s damage on the pitching line came in his fourth and final inning with a two-run homer from Jasson Domínguez and a 447-foot solo shot from Paul Goldschmidt to center field. In both instances, Jobe was ahead in the count, but was hit on offspeed pitches over the plate.

Domínguez had jumped a first-pitch 98 mile-per-hour fastball his first time up and lined it back up the middle -- just past a ducking Jobe -- but to shortstop Trey Sweeney for a groundout. Next time up, Jobe followed a first-pitch slider for a strike with a changeup down at the bottom of the zone. Domínguez connected and sent it deep to right.

“It was honestly right where I want it,” Jobe said. “I think it was 0-1, changeup bottom of the zone. Pretty good spot and he just got the barrel to it.”

Domínguez’s second homer of the spring scored Austin Wells, who had reached on a Javier Báez error at third base. Cody Bellinger followed by battling Jobe for nine pitches and five foul balls before crushing a slider at the top of the zone for a 413-foot drive to center. Riley Greene, starting in center for the second day in a row, ran it down at the shadow of the fence.

Greene’s highlight grab ultimately kept a runner off base for Goldschmidt, who pounced when Jobe followed a first-pitch slider with a 96 mph sinker in a similar spot.

“I think I may have been a bit predictable in my sequence to Goldschmidt,” Jobe said.

A two-out walk to Anthony Volpe ended Jobe’s afternoon with three runs (two earned) on three hits over 3 2/3 innings, a walk and three strikeouts.

“I think he had a day where he was missing and then he was in the middle [of the zone],” manager A.J. Hinch said. “We played really good defense behind him. A couple of balls left the yard. Good learning day for him.”

Bellinger’s fly ball and Dominiguez’s groundout were a theme for their approach against Jobe, with eight balls hit in play with exit velocities at 101 mph or harder. Five of those went for outs, comprising nearly half of the 11 outs Jobe recorded. The Yankees averaged 95.5 mph in exit velocity for his outing, while swinging and missing just three times in 67 pitches – once each off the fastball, two-seamer and slider. Jobe’s curveball, the pitch he hopes to use for more swinging strikes, drew no swings and two called strikes in seven pitches.

“I think I threw a lot of uncompetitive fastballs, whether it was up or arm-side,” Jobe said. “That's something I'll work on, being able to get the heater down and then follow up with offspeed down. I think that helps me, but it all starts with the fastball. Being able to tunnel pitches off of that is important.”

Ultimately, that learning experience is what this amounts to. It shouldn’t impact his case for one of the two open spots in the Tigers' rotation, but it should give him something to work on between starts. His next start lines up for early to middle of next week.