# Domingo German throws a perfect game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [June 29, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271 "2023-06-29T04:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/1 "2023-06-29T04:15:18Z")
I watched every out. It was a masterful performance. Not really a close play during the entire game. 24th perfect game in baseball history. 4th perfect game in Yankee history. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/2 "2023-06-29T04:17:38Z")
I think he got to three balls twice the entire game. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/3 "2023-06-29T08:03:50Z")
Is this the first perfect game that you’ve watched front-to-back live? If so, that must have been thrilling. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/4 "2023-06-29T08:13:58Z")
Wow. 11 - 0 is the highest-scoring perfect game ever. Usually the games are close because when one team pulls ahead far enough, the defensive players tend to relax. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/5 "2023-06-29T09:04:27Z")
This has to be the first time a no-hitter was thrown while wearing the number “0”. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/6 "2023-06-29T10:17:17Z")
I missed every pitch. What a nice surprise to wake up to. I saw Coney and Wells games. German has a lot of issues, but for one night at least he was perfect. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/7 "2023-06-29T12:09:22Z")
24 Perfect Games in MLB history. 4 by the Yanks now. Broke the tie with the White Sox. First Yankee Perfecto on the Road. First Dominican Pitcher to throw a Perfect Game. First Pitcher wearing 0. He needed 99 pitches. One long fly ball to right would have been over the wall at Yankee Stadium. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/8 "2023-06-29T14:59:53Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Is this the first perfect game that you’ve watched front-to-back live? If so, that must have been thrilling. The David Wells perfect game I was driving home and heard most of it on the radio. I caught the end on TV. David Cone’s I started watching some time after the start. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/9 "2023-06-29T15:04:31Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Wow. 11 - 0 is the highest-scoring perfect game ever. Usually the games are close because when one team pulls ahead far enough, the defensive players tend to relax. That was one of the issues he had to contend with. They batted around one inning so he had like a 23 minute delay in between innings. Later the A’s had a pitcher come out injured and there was another almost half hour delay. (I’ll assume he was actually injured and it wasn’t gamesmanship like I thought last nigh). It’s a struggle to keep loose on the bench. Cone had a 33 minute rain delay during his perfect game. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/10 "2023-06-29T15:15:30Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 24 Perfect Games in MLB history. 4 by the Yanks now. I saw a stat last night: 25% of all perfect games in MLB history were thrown by the two teams in last night’s game (4 by the Yankees, two by the A’s). ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/11 "2023-06-29T15:19:36Z")
Incredible pitching performance. He will one day be forgiven for being a Yankee. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/12 "2023-06-29T15:27:06Z")
But he probably won’t be forgiven by all for his other off-field issues. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/13 "2023-06-29T15:41:28Z")
[Didn’t know anything about him before this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Germ%C3%A1n#Personal_life). It’s tiring to hear this same old story over and over. I hope half a season suspended got through to the guy. Maybe temporary suspensions aren’t enough to get the message out to everybody. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/14 "2023-06-29T18:33:18Z")
[Here’s every out in 3 and a half minutes if you want to watch.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeeE0OY2e-8) That grounder to first in the 5th inning needed a good play to get the out, but the rest were all routine. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/15 "2023-06-29T19:28:49Z")
It’s increasingly a rarity these days for a pitcher to record 27 outs in a game, regardless of how many baserunners he allows in between. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/16 "2023-06-29T20:35:42Z")
I thought so too. Rizzo is pretty dependable at first but even he could be forgiven if that got past him. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/17 "2023-06-29T21:23:49Z")
He’s so good defensively that is a routine play for him. For others not so much. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/18 "2023-06-30T12:28:40Z")
I wonder if any of the other perfect games were that pitchers first career complete game. German had only pitched into the 8th inning once before…last season in Oakland. 7.2 innings of shutout ball. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/19 "2023-06-30T13:35:46Z")
That will probably become more common going into the future. As so many starting pitchers don’t get a complete game in a full season now. [Here is a list of No-Hitters](https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/no-hitters-and-perfect-games.shtml) I know a few pitchers have thrown no-hitters in their first game, but I’m pretty sure no one has thrown a perfecto in their first game. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271/20 "2023-06-30T13:41:59Z")
He gave up 10 earned runs in his previous appearance. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/domingo-german-throws-a-perfect-game/986271.md?page=2)