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Germán delivers MLB’s 1st perfect game since 2012
Major League Baseball website ^ | June 29,2023 | Sonja Chen

Posted on 06/28/2023 9:34:10 PM PDT by TBP

OAKLAND -- Domingo Germán tossed Major League Baseball's first perfect game since 2012 in the Yankees' 11-0 win over the A's on Wednesday night at the Coliseum. It was the fourth perfect game in franchise history, and the first since David Cone against the Expos in 1999.

After allowing 17 runs (15 earned) over 5 1/3 innings in his previous two starts, Germán entered Wednesday with the potential to make the wrong kind of history by becoming just the fifth pitcher in franchise history to allow seven-plus runs in three straight games.

Instead, Germán snapped a streak of another kind with his historic night. The A's had not been no-hit since July 13, 1991, in a combined effort by four Orioles pitchers, which was the longest active streak in the Majors.

It's the 24th perfect game in AL/NL history and the first since Félix Hernández threw one on Aug. 15, 2012, against the Rays in Seattle.

The last time an opposing pitcher was perfect against the A's? May 5, 1904, when Cy Young and the Boston Americans went 27 up, 27 down against the Philadelphia Athletics.

Germán joins Cone, David Wells (May 17, 1998 vs. Twins) and Don Larsen (Oct. 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the World Series vs. Brooklyn Dodgers) as Yankees pitchers to throw perfect games.

Germán's big night began with a career milestone, his 500th strikeout, which perhaps hinted at more good things to come later on.

The 30-year-old right-hander did not seem to miss a beat throughout the evening, even when the Yankees batted around in a six-run top of the fifth inning that lasted more than 20 minutes. Germán got through the bottom half of that frame on 10 pitches, displaying a remarkable efficiency that lasted all the way to the final out.

Germán needed just 99 pitches to record all 27 outs, striking out nine A's batters.

No perfecto would be complete without a critical play to preserve the bid, and Anthony Rizzo supplied just that for the Yankees when he dove to his left to smother a 106.5 mph grounder off the bat of Seth Brown in the bottom of the fifth. Rizzo snared it, then flipped it to Germán at first for the out.

Rizzo also made a nice grab on a throw from third baseman Josh Donaldson that veered slightly wide to end the eighth inning, stretching across the bag but managing to keep his foot down to retire Oakland's Jonah Bride.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: 27hitters; german; getwokegobroke; mlb; perfectgame; yankees
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To: Verginius Rufus

Ironically, it’s the A’s AAA club.


41 posted on 06/29/2023 4:35:28 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Babe walked the first batter, disputed the call, and was ejected. Ernie Shore came in to relieve him, picked the runner off, and retired the next 26 batters.


42 posted on 06/29/2023 4:36:52 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: nickcarraway; Verginius Rufus; TBP
BABE RUTH MADE HISTORY WITH HELP FROM ERNIE SHORE
43 posted on 06/29/2023 5:08:02 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Mozzafiato

I keep getting a Not Found page.


44 posted on 06/29/2023 7:18:40 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: whitney69

Yup—I am a former Yankees fan.

They went woke so I am gone.

(German always had good stuff—so I do feel great for the guy.)


45 posted on 06/29/2023 7:23:44 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: TBP
Let me try that again: Babe Ruth Made History...
46 posted on 06/29/2023 9:50:01 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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