Domingo Germán perfect game against .302 OBP.

Perfect games regular season: 20 since 1900. Sunday, November 8, 2020

Domingo Germán last night (June 28, 2023) in Oakland pitched a nine inning complete game in which he retired all batters: 27 up, 27 down.

The nine starting batters for Oakland each batted three times. Evaluation of an opposing lineup:

- no hitter: Batting Average (BA)

- perfect game: On Base Percentage (OBP); it's obviously an average, not a percentage.

Including his perfect game, opposing OBP against German so far in the 2023 season on his 81 innings: .271. 2023 BA against German: .201. Those numbers also include German getting bombed in his two previous starts: 15 ER in 5 innings.

For all 30 teams so far in 2023:

2023 Major League Baseball Team Statistics

BA: .248

OBP: .319

Oakland:

BA: .217

OBP: .298

But what was the OBP for the nine batters German faced last night in the perfect game? Sorted on OBP:

	Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	PA	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	Pit	Str
2	Ryan Noda 1B	3	0	0	0	0	3	3	.232	.382	.408	.790	14	9
3	Brent Rooker LF	3	0	0	0	0	2	3	.236	.336	.455	.791	14	11
6	Jonah Bride 3B	3	0	0	0	0	2	3	.200	.328	.220	.548	14	10
9	Esteury Ruiz CF	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	.260	.315	.334	.650	8	5
4	Carlos Pérez DH	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.235	.297	.374	.671	10	8
1	Tony Kemp 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.179	.283	.261	.544	8	7
8	Shea Langeliers C	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	.198	.263	.354	.617	11	9
7	Aledmys Díaz SS	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.201	.259	.272	.530	9	6
5	Seth Brown RF	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.187	.253	.358	.612	11	7
		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	PA	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Ave								.214	.302	.337	.639

The number in the left column is batting order position. The last batter German faced was Ruiz who had the fourth highest OBP among the Oakland nine.

Their BA is a little lower than for the Oakland team as a whole: .214 v .217. But their OBP is higher: .302 v .298. 

The Oakland team OBP .298 is 27th among the 30 MLB teams. The Yankees are 28th: .297.

The OBP for all 30 teams, including Oakland, is .319.

Domingo Germán threw his perfect game against a starting lineup with .302 OBP.

Texas has the highest OBP: .343. Atlanta is second with .340.