Trent Grisham cleared the bases with a double that put the Yankees in front to stay during a six-run explosion in the sixth inning.

Brendan Beck, called up a few hours prior, pitched around some loud contact and took down three innings in which he let up two runs in a successful major league debut.

The Yankees staff, which used six pitchers to stitch together nine innings during a game from which Ryan Weathers was scratched, did its job in a contest that became a 16th win in 19 tries.

A gorgeous and sunny afternoon filled with positive steps around the club was clouded by the step that ended with Jasson Domínguez face down in the dirt, concerns abounding about the mind and body of one of the organization’s most popular players.

A 9-2 Yankees victory over the Rangers in front of 42,729 in The Bronx on Thursday sure felt a lot smaller after the first batter of the game sent Domínguez first to the wall and later to the hospital.

“He’s just such a good kid,” manager Aaron Boone said of Domínguez, who is headed to the injured list with a low-grade AC sprain of his left shoulder and who is in the concussion protocol. “There’s a joy he kind of walks to every day, no matter what’s going on. He’s very consistent in who he is. They love him in [the clubhouse].”

On Paul Blackburn’s eighth pitch to Brandon Nimmo, the former Met smacked a shot that forced Domínguez to scramble back. He did not slow as he leapt, smashed into the left field wall and then smashed into the dirt, his hat and sunglasses tumbling off and the ball secure in his glove.

Domínguez was down for several minutes after completing one of the better and gutsier plays a player can make. He was able to get up on his own but had to take only a couple of steps to reach the cart. He was emotional upon being driven off the field, with multiple reasons for concern.

In the moments after the game, the Yankees were set to call up Spencer Jones for the top prospect’s much-hyped major league debut and were cautiously optimistic Domínguez had avoided the worst.

Initial concussion testing came back negative, but the Yankees — who have a history of concussion issues, from Clint Frazier to Anthony Rizzo — will continue monitoring the 23-year-old. After an examination by head team physician Christopher Ahmad, Domínguez traveled to NewYork-Presbyterian, where his left shoulder received a diagnosis that Boone said came with a “few weeks” timetable.

This season already had tested Domínguez, who did not complain when he did not make the major league roster out of camp — a near impossibility once the club brought back Grisham and Cody Bellinger — and reported to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, where he took out any frustration on opposing pitchers.

“We’ve talked a lot recently about just how well he’s handled his situation here over the last four or five months,” Boone said of Domínguez, who went to the minors, performed, and then was called up to replace Giancarlo Stanton in late April. “And I think another layer as well as being a really good guy and a good teammate, and just — what’s that shirt he wears — ‘Be a good person.’ He kind of embodies that the way he goes about it every day, no matter what’s going on.”

In Domínguez’s third game, he exited after getting drilled in the left elbow. In his ninth game, the concern level escalated — for player and team, whose immediate reactions provided a hint at what Domínguez means to the Yankees.

Bellinger ran over from right field and Grisham from center. So did Jazz Chisholm Jr., all the way from second base, and Amed Rosario from third. They huddled together on the spen track in left, near Boone and several trainers who were checking on Domínguez. Both dugouts were filled with players and coaches on the top step peering over at a player who has transitioned from a mega-prospect to a smiley and talented athlete trying to prove himself at the highest level.

“A tremendous catch,” Bellinger said, “and an unfortunate situation for him.”

“Great, great play,” added the day’s starting shortstop, Max Schuemann. “Sucks to see him go down like that. … We’ll see. Hopefully he’s OK.”