Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game Saturday in a 4-0 win over the Mariners in Seattle.
Only 20 other pitchers have tossed perfect games, in which no opposing batter reaches base, in Major League history, according to MLB.com.
It was the first no-hitter of the 2012 season.
Humber threw 96 pitches, 67 for strikes, and struck out nine. The last batter he faced, Brendan Ryan, nearly spoiled the perfect game when he struck out but had to be thrown out at first when the ball got past Chicago catcher A.J. Pierzynski.
Until Humber's gem, Philadelphia's Roy Halladay had the most recent perfect game, on May 29, 2010, against Florida. Oakland's Dallas Braden had the American League's most recent perfect game, on May 9, 2010, against Tampa Bay. The last White Sox pitcher to throw a perfect game was Mark Buehrle against Tampa Bay on July 23, 2009.
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Way to go Humber and way to go Sox!!
What a bunch of snarky wooses you posters are!
No one in America watches baseball anymore.
Some Body, pretty ignorant statement. I was with 32,000 other people as we watched the Tampa Bay Rays beat the twins 4-1 tonight. Thus, you statement is proven wrong.
That is totally true, except for the millions of fans who do.
You're just goofy, picking baseball to get attention.
Not true. Some of us have teams that don't suck, and we watch.
wow, awesome!
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Thank you Tigers Fan. If you can believe it, I was actually there and about 7 rows up by first base. I was in shock, and the look on Gallaraga and Cabrera's faces will be stuck in my brain forever.
Who are the other pitchers that have thrown perfect games? And is walking someone but no hits considered perfect game or just no hitter?
A perfect game is no hits, no walks, no one reaches base...a no hitter is just that, no hits
No hitters can have walks. A perfect game means no one on the opposing team got on base. No hitters are special but perfect games are pretty rare.
First of all, Congrats to Phil. This is something so monumental, that we all look on with envy. Lest we all experience such great achievement.
Now to the morons we disrespect the Game. Baseball is like the game of Chess. I'm not saying that is played by intellectual giants. But the game itself is a calculating, strategic affair that requires cunning, strategy, and patience. Perhaps this is why less and less of us watch it. But that is what makes it so great.
Smart people - thinking people, love the game. And this will never change. It's what personified America at a time when people took the time to appreciate the slow and gradual work, the HARD work, that it takes to do something very difficult.
When baseball fades, so does our country.
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nice bit of writing there but it's mostly nonsense. MLB is a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around and swinging a stick at it. Iit isn't any deeper or more profound than any other sport, football, hockey, rugby, whatever. Sure you can use it as analogy for other areas of life but ultimately it is just disposable entertainment....that is losing its appeal because there are more entertaining alternatives out there.
I love the sox..but im
Cubs fan.
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Hey Rexie. Hell of a situation we got here. Two on, two out, bottom of the ninth, your team down by a run, chance for you to be a hero on national television...if you don't blow it. By the way, saw your wife the other night. Hell of a dancer, you must be very, very proud. That guy she was with must have been a close personal friend. But tell me Rexie, what was he doing with her panties on his head? (Rexman pops the ball straight up) Uh, oh Rexie, I don't think this one has the distance.
Fact: If your IQ is higher then your blood alcohal level: Baseball is the #2 sport behind only football, & b4 basketball & hockey.
Fact: If you're nothing but a drunk redneck with an IQ low enough to drive, but blood alcohal level too high to drive: NASCAR is #1 sport, followed by fishing, hunting, football, & pig calling!
To those who think football is a game of idiots, you youself are an idiot. Believe it or not, football requires much more than physical distinction. Baseball? While I love it, not so much... The NFL is king and, for shall ever be!
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Glad he was in no jeopardy of throwing more than 100 pitches!! He could have been yanked. LOL
No, a perfect game would be a 58 at The Masters, not this simple matter of not one hitter being able to hit the ball for an entire game.
"Did you get a hit, son? No? That's ok, maybe next time. How many hits did your team have? None? PERFECT!!!" ?