History was made Monday night, and who better than someone who caught an Astros combined no-hitter just nine months ago to do it.
The game also has the distinction of the first perfect game to be won on a walkoff when Enrique Hernandez drove in Maldonado for the winning 10th run.
The 36-year-old Maldonado began the historic game with starting pitcher Jose De Leon, who is in the Minnesota Twins' farm system. De Leon flamed Israeli batters for 10 strikeouts in five and two-thirds innings, leaving the game due only to the WBC's 65-pitch limit in the opening round. The World Series champion is one of two Astros catchers in franchise history to catch multiple no-hitters: one in 2019 and the other last June, the latter of which was started by Cristian Javier, who is in the WBC for the Dominican Republic.
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