I am not going to beat around the bush here,
Justin Germano threw a perfect game tonight, 27 Syracuse Chiefs up and 27 down. Germano (1-2, 3.65) struck out 7, including
Corey Brown three times, the last of them looking to end the game. He retired 11 on ground balls, 9 on fly balls and threw 69 of his 95 pitches for strikes. Justin threw first pitch strikes to 18 of 27 hitters and faced only one three ball count, to
Michael Aubrey with 2 outs in the first. He also had a four pitch seventh inning. It was the first perfect game in the history of the Columbus Clippers, regardless of affiliation, and the first 9-inning IL perfecto since 2003.
This was Gemano's first win of the season at any level. Since joining the Clippers' rotation on July 6, he has not only limited opponents to a .196 batting average, but he has not walked a batter over 26 innings.
The sluggish Columbus offense put up all three of their runs early in support of Justin, with
Tim Fedroff driving in a pair and
Cord Phelps (.294) adding the third. Fedroff (.277) and
Paul Phillips (.233) each had 3 hits.
In case any of you are wondering, I beat literally everyone with this report, including STO and the official Clippers twitter feed. Nice.
We are going to let this one stand on its own tonight.
Cheers
