![]() 10, 1999, when Pedro Martinez struck out 17 Yankees. I told Jake I was at the Wells and Cone perfectos, but that the best game I ever saw pitched (not close, by the way) came on Sept. ![]() New York Post The perfect game could spur German onto meeting his expectations - or not. New York Post back page for Thursday, Jun. Humber had thrown the first of three perfect games in 2012, but there had been none since Felix Hernandez produced the 23rd ever on Aug. But I called him into my room to watch the ninth inning with me and he got into it as I explained the rarity of what was occurring. My son, Jake, is not much of a baseball fan. Now what? Is he Larsen or Wells? Or neither? For one game - singular - he was brilliant. ![]() He was only in the rotation due to injuries to Frankie Montas, Carlos Rodon and Nestor Cortes - and if all three were available he would have been out of the rotation after those two bad showings. German returned from that to pitch well and then dreadfully - in his two starts prior to the A’s, German had allowed 17 runs in 5 ¹/₃ innings. He was suspended earlier this season for 10 games for having an illegal sticky substance on his hand. German has flitted in and out of the rotation since 2017, missing all of 2020 as the continuation of a suspension for violating MLB’s domestic abuse policy. Like Larsen, he came to the Yankees as a talented supplementary piece when they landed a more desirable starter - in November 1954, it was the Yankees acquiring “Bullet” Bob Turley from the Orioles 60 years later, December 2014, it was Nathan Eovaldi from the Marlins. He has had spurts of really good pitching during his career, but a Larsen-esque similarity of being unable to translate upside into persistent success or even an unquestioned rotation role. German was 30 when he pitched his gem Wednesday night in Oakland. Except from there through the end of the following season - and, thus, the end of his career - Humber went 4-13 with by far the worst ERA (7.59) of anyone who threw 100 innings.ĭomingo German ‘masterpiece’ only can be found in baseball It was possible, in the moment, to see this as finding himself. He had been a disappointment, but was still just 29 when he overwhelmed the Mariners. After all, Humber had been the third-overall pick by the Mets in 2004. When Humber threw his on April 21, 2012, it was possible to try to project the meaning forward. German joined an exclusive Yankees club on Wednesday night, one that has mixed results in their careers. But because it is one game so could Larsen. So a historically great pitcher such as Cy Young could throw the first-ever perfect game and other all-timers such as Sandy Koufax, Catfish Hunter and Roy Halladay could throw one too. This is not meant as rain on a special accomplishment. Like Wells against the 1998 Twins and Cone against the 1999 Expos, German faced a terrible foe the historically bad 2023 A’s. Now there is German, who in career performance resembles the talented, but underachieving Larsen much more than the accomplished Wells and Cone. Domingo German poses with his Yankees teammates after pitching a perfect game. He was the Yankees ace through the perfect game and then went 2-5 with a 4.82 ERA the rest of the regular season. In his next two starts, Cone allowed 10 runs in 11 innings. There was David Cone the following season, who endured a rain delay to deliver a perfect game versus the Expos in 1999. There was David Wells, who threw the first regular-season Yankees perfect game in 1998, and used that as a launching pad to go from Joe Torre’s doghouse to his ace on arguably the greatest team ever. ![]() There was Don Larsen and if anyone was going to get a career bump from a singular event wouldn’t it come from being the only pitcher (still) to be perfect in the World Series? Except Larsen the following year was basically Larsen - he walked more than he struck out and had a negative ERA-plus. Who are the four Yankees who have pitched perfect games? But the only guarantees about Domingo German’s perfect game - singular - is that it will bring greater value to his autograph and assure he will be an answer within a lot more trivia games going forward. ![]() It is a perfect game and you will note the singular of “game.”Īs humans, we want to see one event, particularly a rare one, and bring meaning beyond that. Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander could be tradeable as signs show Mets as sellers The Yankees may have too many holes to plug Mets haven't given up Hail Mary hopes even if reality may say otherwise Yankees have a blueprint to follow after Carlos Rodon kiss saga ![]()
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