Yankees announcer Ryan Ruocco had the perfect resource to turn to Wednesday night as he called Domingo German’s perfect game against the Oakland Athletics for the YES Network.
Following the fifth inning, Ruocco texted YES analyst David Cone, who threw the Yankees’ previous perfect game more than two decades ago.
“I said to him, ‘When did you start thinking about it in July of ‘99?’ And he was like, ‘Now,’ ” Ruocco told the New York Daily News. “I already thought, ‘Yeah, we really should start leaning in here a little bit,’ but the fact that Coney, who has a perspective only 23 other people in the history of baseball have, said to me, ‘Now,’ it further validated it’s cool to totally lean in.”
