I saw it on the New York Times site first. Something about the Yankees? And it was good? A pitcher ... oh, crap! No! Who did he do it against? Of course. Had to be. Uccckhh.

I always liked that King Felix was the last MLB pitcher to throw a perfect game—way back in August 2012, when the world was young—but now that the world is old and haggard that honor belongs to the Yankees' Domingo German. He did it last night, against the hapless A's, before a tiny crowd in Oakland. He's the 24th pitcher to ever throw a perfect game—or 22nd if you ignore the 19th century, which I do. It's also the fourth time the Yankees have been involved in a perfect game, and, shocker, they're 4-0. In the win column, no other team is close. Isn't that sad? Even in this narrow category of ballyhoo, where, say, both Cleveland and Philadelphia are good, the Yankees still dominate everybody. Can't we have one nice thing ever? 

Here are the standings:

Last night the Yanks won 11-0, and apparently that's a record for most runs in a perfecto. This one will probably set another record, too, but we'll have to wait until October to find out. Right now, the worst team that's been on the losing end of one of these, at least in terms of season-long winning percentage, is the 1964 NY Mets, victims of Jim Bunning, who went 53-109 (.327). Second worst is the 2012 Astros, blanked by Matt Cain, who went 55-107 (.339), followed by the '81 Blue Jays, who lost to Len Barker and went 37-69 (.349) in that strike-shortened season.

The 2023 Oakland A's are currently 21-62 (.253). They're on pace to shatter the mark.

Joe Posnanski wasn't happy with the result, either.