“When he gets rolling like that he’s just so fun to watch at his craft because he’s so good at commanding all of his pitches. We’ve seen him flirt with outings like that over time,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said, thinking to when Boston’s Alex Verdugo broke up Germán’s no-hit bid in the eighth in July 2021. “It was just so fun to watch him do that and go to work. He’s the first pitcher from the Dominican Republic to complete a perfect game. Noda struck out on consecutive curveballs, and Germán followed with three straight curves to Bride: one for a called strike, the next resulting in a foul ball and the third in a groundout. He went to three balls on a batter just twice, falling behind Ryan Noda 3-1 in the fourth and Jonah Bride by the same count in the eighth. He mixed 51 curveballs and 30 fastballs that averaged 92.5 mph with 17 changeups and one sinker. Winless in six previous outings against Oakland, Germán threw 72 of 99 pitches for strikes. His only previous complete game as a professional came with Double-A Trenton in April 2017. He was also banned 81 games by Major League Baseball earlier in his career over an alleged domestic violence incident. The 30-year-old pitcher served a 10-game suspension last month after getting ejected from a game in Toronto for using an illegal sticky substance on the mound.
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