OAKLAND, Calif. — The Athletics were doing their best Thursday to turn the page on a lamentable chapter in their history.
As if going 21-60 at the season’s halfway point wasn’t enough to digest, the A’s began the second half of the season Wednesday night as victims of the 24th perfect game in major league history as authored by New York Yankees journeyman right-hander Domingo German.
It was the third perfect game at the Coliseum, joining Jim “Catfish” Hunter (May 8, 1968) and A’s television analyst Dallas Braden (May 9, 2010).
