Domingo German perfect game for Yankees vs. Athletics likely cashed +700 MLB futures odds ticket at sportsbook

Most sportsbooks offer a daily prop on whether there will be a no-hitter thrown on a given day of the Major League Baseball season, and the price on Yes depends on how many games are on the schedule, if any dominant pitchers are on the mound, and so on. You're usually looking somewhere around +2500 for Yes on a given full day. On Wednesday night, the Yankees' Domingo German threw a perfect game in Oakland. Caesars Sportsbook did offer a spring prop on whether we would get one this year, which paid +700. There's no word on how much action it took, if any -- although I can all but guarantee that prop took decent action because bettors love those long-shot prices in the spring. 

That the first no-hitter of the year came against the A's frankly isn't a surprise. They're terrible by design and have the most anonymous lineup in the majors. That it was German who accomplished the feat was a massive surprise, considering he had allowed 17 runs over 5.1 innings in his past two starts. That's not a typo. German became the first player in MLB history to throw a perfect game after allowing double-digit runs in his previous start. He had the potential to make the wrong kind of history by becoming just the fifth pitcher in Yankees history to allow seven-plus runs in three straight games.

It was the 24th perfect game in league history and the first since Seattle's Felix Hernandez did it in 2012. The 3,969 days between perfect games was the longest gap since a 4,755-day span from 1968 (Catfish Hunter) to 1981 (Len Barker). In that time, there were 31 individual no-hitters and nine combined efforts.

There were three perfect games in 2012 alone, with the White Sox's Philip Humber (arguably the worst pitcher to ever throw one) and Giants' Matt Cain both having one before Hernandez did. The Yankees now have four perfect games in their history, breaking a tie with the White Sox for the most:

• Domingo German, 2023
• David Cone, 1999
• David Wells, 1998
• Don Larsen, 1956

The Dominican-born German is the third player born outside the United States to pitch a perfect game in MLB history, joining Hernandez (Venezuela) and Dennis Martinez (Nicaragua). The 11 runs scored by the Yankees last night – and they have really been struggling at the plate without the injured Aaron Judge – marked the most ever scored by a team in a perfect game.

German, who said he was motivated to pitch well by the recent death of an uncle, is not scheduled to pitch again until Monday at home vs. Baltimore, although any weather issues this weekend in St. Louis could change that. He struck out nine A's in his perfect game.

Clarke Schmidt (2-6, 4.32) is charged with trying to make history on Wednesday by throwing the first ever back-to-back perfect game. The shortest gap between perfect games was 20 days in 2010. Dallas Braden threw one on May 9 and Philadelphia's Roy Halladay did the same on May 29.

Of course, back-to-back no-hitters have been thrown just once by an individual: Cincinnati's Johnny Vander Meer in June 1938. Until Wednesday, 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.

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