 Domingo Herman is taking the mound he is three outs away from completing a perfect game the first perfect game since 2012 the first perfect game by a Dominican born player grabs the ball let's go Yankees the fans are ready and this break down is brought to you by shady rays who work with us a lot and they're giving you the best discount we ever give anybody more about that later on. Domingo Herman's got work to do the first pitch change up away for ball one now he went a lot of secondary pitches that's a curveball four strike one and one towards the end of this game and I'm going to break down the pitching and some fun stuff this is just the ninth inning fouled back he's got two strikes on him he's taking his time he's breathing he's thinking all about it ground ball Volpe gobbles it up throws across for the easy first out of father and son witnessing history gotta love that first pitch pop up to center field they're going to make it easy on him I guess it's been somewhat easy let's go one more one more out and only one more pitch needed a ground ball to Donaldson and at this moment before he even throws it Severino is celebrating and Glaber is looking into the cooler to see if there's any liquid in it because he wants to throw it on Domingo then the ball gets thrown the out gets recorded we got a little jump spin and then a kind of like yes come hug me all of you my children I thank the big celebration everyone's just very happy Higgy catches a perfect game he caught a no hitter couple seasons ago now he catches a perfect game he's in history the dugout response Glaber says alright never mind screw this I don't have anyone to carry it with me judge stays back kind of limp it in that same shot on the left here is the translator or interpreter what's the correct word Marlin and he's looking on very intense he spends a lot of time with Domingo and then you have I like this instead of being alone because not a player is not a coach but he's part of the team hitting coach Brad Wilkerson he celebrates with him right away look let's go buddy look at that that maybe smile is nice little wholesome moment Domingo's uncle passed away a couple days ago he said he spent all of the day prior crying about that and maybe that's who he's pointing up to and talking to right there I don't know just making an assumption based on what we know alright let's go back to how he got this perfect game he threw three pitches he threw a fastball mostly top of the zone he threw a change up that starts left got armside run and he threw a curveball his curveball is really like tight little humpback curveball and all three pitches together look like that so they all play off each other well now there's a couple of bats I want to walk through just to show you what I thought was cool and I've done this with Domingo earlier in the year I did a breakdown on this but I like how he pitches because he kind of finds the outside line and then plays with it so pitch number one he wants the call there doesn't get it so he goes back to the same pitch a little closer in and gets the strike call now this is pitch one and two overlaid and they are a little different and the one a little more inside did get called a strike so now that he's found that outside line he's going to play with it with the change up and gets the strike called there as well so here's the fastball I called strike and change up called strike 92 miles per hour 85 different movement both get called a strike he's going to stay outside and try to beat him to that spot again with the fastball I just love the consistency so here's the change up and then the fastball and then here's all four of those pitches overlaid and he's just messing with that spot and that line and now that he's got the hitter reaching out to hit that pitch and kind of thinking about it he's going to come in with the curveball that might have been a mistake I'm not sure if you wanted to come in but he gets the easy pop up is it easy IKF he got it imagine that in the third inning that would have been bad alright now here's where he started to fall in love with his curveball but he got a little smart about it he tries to go curveball first pitch it doesn't have any break curveball second pitch tries to find it again still no break now it's two and oh that's a fastball count and the hitters like yep he can't locate his curveball for a strike he's going to go fastball but instead her mom triples up the curveball and gets a big swing and a miss then what's he going to do now he's throwing three curveballs he can go fastball now he goes change up just to mix it up a little bit three and one another fastball count he's thrown three balls he's wild with his off speed he's got to throw me a fastball now nope another curve drops the batter to his knee full count another curve through three times in a row and then through a change up then then he threw it twice now the next batter comes up and he's going to open him up curveball and it's working so you think the catcher says hey let's do the curveball you know I don't want to throw so the change up then no I don't want to throw that I want to stay on my fastball fastball yanks it's not good catcher says alright let's go change up her curve he says no let's stay with the fastball let's make them protect the fastball as well well there's a strike with the fastball and another one so he went three fastballs in a row and then after that now back to the curve foul ball now back to the curve foul ball well back to it again gets him and on that third one you can see Higgy sets up a well we got pitches to waste and he's swinging so let's move outside a little bit and they get him I like that I like that he was like I got a nasty curveball right now but I can't throw just curves I got a mix in the fastball as it was three three three three there's always a defensive play in perfect games this is the biggest one it's not huge it's not like the you know Dwayne Wise catch but it's a nice play by Rizzo it wasn't a lot of hard hit balls by the ace I mean that's a hard hit ball and that's a nice play by Rizzo but usually you get a ton the Yankees put up 11 runs so Hermon had to do a lot of things at one point he to stay loose he starts stretching I like this the ace broadcaster shown a lot of the stretching and then a lot of him talking to the pitching coach Matt Blake where he's talking about no not that one he's done change up what's that and Matt Blake's going over it with them and talking about it and saying where to throw it and all that in between these are going over all the batters like middle down you're going to get this swing and they're going to ground it but up in a way that's smashed and he's like okay good to know good to know and then this was the plan you can basically see he says don't keep the fastball up change way at the bottom and then hook in the curve and you got it you're all good and he's going over the batters like the next two batters all fastballs and curveballs away all right bring it into him let him make them try to pull it okay so they're going over it in between ever any Matt Blake was there in his corner basically I like seeing that and then this was kind of funny Domingo Herman got suspended for sticky stuff on his hands earlier this year he just reapplied rosin I'm guessing because it looks like he's messing with his hands you can see pitching coach Matt Blake be like hey hey hey hey give me your hand let me feel how sticky are you Domingo is like okay here's my right hand what do you think do you think it's legal I don't want to get us in trouble he's like yep just making sure okay you're all good to go I gotcha and yeah the umpires checked him twice a couple times during the game as well now let's break down the top hugs at the end of the game Rizzo has the game ball he says here you go dude that's history and then two pats there two pats down low and then two pats in the front then Bader comes in and they're going to jump hug that was a nice one pitching coach Matt Blake big all hug like I said he was helping him and then Boone's waiting in the wings and this is a fatherly hug here with some words of wisdom and advice and congratulations and pride in his ear and Domingo lets him soak it in and he says thank you and all that and then you got Harkie gets a big old bear hug lifts him up everybody like Cole whoa nice hug from Cole they're also going to embrace for a little bit and chat and Domingo seems happy to chat with him and then Cole looks at him really proud like freeze frame ending of a movie proud they got jug with a hug a little bit of a chat a pull away pats to the chest pulls him back in that's just a guy who knows what he's doing I'm going to embrace you we're going to separate I'm going to look you in the eye and pat you on the chest say I'm proud of you and then I'm going to bring you back in for the real deal good stuff Rizzo with the rookie Volpe at the back of the pack while they're doing interviews just gives him a little bump here he's like dude let's go part of history baby there's also this moment where the Yankees are hanging out in the background behind the interviews and I see Rizzo tapping people and he's like yeah so I go to him and say you know he's perfect right perfect game and then they just laugh and it's just the boys cracking jokes and sharing stories part of history and the catcher and pitcher relationship is always one of my favorites and you can see that after Domingo looks up to the heavens he finds Higgy again and gives him a nice embrace I love the catcher pitcher relationship but I also love this as Higgy leaves you got catching coach Tanner Swanson coming up to Higgy like yeah baby and Trevino the other catcher on the roster so this is a little catcher three some right here all given Higgy props and being proud for him and I love it because what Higgy did all game was give him props give Domingo props yep yep oh beautiful yep yep yep yep yep yep yep oh yep love it love it love it good pitch love it so they get their picture together they'll be signing baseballs together for the rest of our lives another hug for them and looks like Domingo says something that makes Higgy laugh here and then another little hug and then Domingo's going to turn oh another hug oh my goodness he's going to turn and say hey everybody I want a picture with all my teammates let's do it so they all get together and judges like yeah everybody he went hey hey you're in the picture you're in the picture you're in the picture and you got Kainley standing in the back with all the tall people realizes it's a mistake and he's got to jump to get his face into this picture say perfect on three perfect and then another embrace catcher in picture with Higgy rubbing his head and pitching coach Matt Blake getting another hug from Domingo saying thank you for getting me through this and that is everything from perfect game Domingo Herman good job congratulations this one was brought to you by Shady raise use code break down for 50% off 50% off 2 plus pairs of polarized sunglasses Shady raise 50% off 2 plus pairs of polarized sunglasses