Rob Amato tosses first perfect game in Xaverian history
With two outs in the top of the seventh inning, a sharp ground ball was hit to Xaverian’s Phoenix Hernandez. He scooped it up and fired it to first base, but the ball sailed high. First baseman Xavier Vargas jumped, made the catch, tagged the runner and everyone’s eyes turned to the umpire.
As the first base umpire raised his fist to indicate the final out, mayhem broke loose as Xaverian ace Rob Amato had officially thrown the first perfect game in his school’s history, a 7-0 win over Molloy High School in Bay Ridge on Monday.
“That was amazing,” Amato said. “I can’t even describe it. I did not think that would happen … Even during the third or fourth innings, I didn’t think it would happen. It wasn’t until the sixth when I started to think it was possible.”