Three outs, nine strikes, and not one pitch touched by a bat — that’s an immaculate inning, and Dellin Betances threw one on Wednesday night to put his name in the record books.
Dellin Betances threw the sixth immaculate inning in Yankees history
It was the second immaculate inning thrown against the Tigers this year.
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It’s the sixth ever immaculate inning for a Yankee, with Betances joining Brandon McCarthy, Ivan Nova, A.J. Burnett, Ron Guidry, and Al Downing in the history books. Interestingly enough, it was also the sixth immaculate inning to be thrown in the league this season. The last belonged to Carlos Carrasco in early July.
Betances’ impressive inning (which happened in the top of the eighth) came after a multiple-hour rain delay at Yankee Stadium and in a game that New York would eventually lose.
Unfortunately, that means that only a small portion of fans saw the inning happen because so many had left the stadium during the extensive delay.
It’s still history, though, even if there weren’t thousands of people at the field when it happened.
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