Tag Archives: perfect game
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The 20 Best Pitching Games Scores in MLB History
In baseball, when we talk about amazing pitching performances, we usually end up just talking about no-hitters and perfect games. However, not all no-hitters and perfect games are created equal. In fact, just last year we did a whole list of the worst no-hitters of all-time. So wouldn’t it be nice if there were some [...]
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The Mariners’ Farm Team Was Really Excited About Felix Hernandez’s Perfect Game (Video)
Major League baseball teams may often find themselves relying heavily on their Minor League affiliates, as injuries, free agency, trades and retirement force them to search the lower leagues for adequate line-up replacements. But how close of a bond do Major and Minor League teams share? If the Major League team wins the World Series, [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/15/12 — Felix Hernandez (Perfect Game Video)
Twenty-seven up. Twenty-seven down. That is exactly how you would sum up Felix Hernandez’s performance on the mound yesterday afternoon, as he became just the 23rd player in Major League history – and the 21 in the modern era – to throw a perfect game. Perfect games are supposed to be hard to come by, [...]
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11 Worst No-Hitters Of All Time
If someone said to you, “real quick, what’s the ultimate achievement for a pitcher,” you’d probably answer that it’s a no-hitter. You’d be wrong, of course, because the ultimate achievement is a perfect game. But a no-hitter is the next best thing, and that’s not a terrible answer. After all, we usually think of no-hitters [...]
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Guy Uses Jet Pack To Fly Around McCovey Cove During Matt Cain’s Perfect Game (Videos)
If you don’t live on the West Coast, then you might not have found out about Matt Cain’s 14-strikeout perfect game last night against the Astros in San Francisco until…well, just now. And let me tell you, it was a game for the ages. The 22nd perfect game ever thrown was almost certainly one of [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 6/13/12 — Matt Cain
When the first pitch was thrown to kick off last night’s slate of Major League Baseball games, there was a total of 21 perfect games thrown in league history. By the time Matt Cain had thrown the final pitch to close out the San Francisco Giants’ 10-0 victory over the Houston Astros, there were 22. [...]
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Kate Upton And Justin Verlander Star In Another MLB 2K12 Commercial (Video)
Justin Verlander has thrown two no-hitters over the course of his Major League career. As impressive as that may be, it is still not enough to get him into “The Perfect Club,” which is reserved only for those who have pitched a perfect game, like Randy Johnson and Roy Halladay. Kate Upton is also somehow [...]
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Umpire Jim Joyce Robs Armando Galarraga Of A Perfect Game
We have already given him The Stat Line of the Night, but the Major League record books will forever be absent of one particularly worthy name, all because an umpire couldn’t get it right. It was the top of the ninth in a game between the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park, and [...]
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Celebrating Dallas Braden’s Perfect Game With A Tattoo
Okay, so let’s get one thing straight. A tattoo paying tribute to Bobby Orr’s Stanley Cup game winning goal in 1970 is cool. A tattoo paying tribute to Dallas Braden’s perfect game in May of 2010 is not. Sure, a perfect game in baseball is quite the accomplishment, but is it tattoo worthy? I wouldn’t [...]
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The Stat Line Of The Night – 07/23/09 – Mark Buehrle
Total Pro Sports – This one was a no-brainer. Yesterday afternoon Mark Buehrle took the mound against the Tampa Bay Rays at U.S. Cellular Field. Twenty-seven of their players stepped into the batters box to face him and they all went down, one by one as he became only the 18th pitcher in MLB history [...]
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Incredible 9th Inning Catch By Dewayne Wise Saves Perfect Game For Mark Buehrle
Total Pro Sports – Those outfielders in Chicago aren’t only about making bad plays that lose your team the game. Leave that to the Cubs and Milton Bradley. At the south end of the city, we have Dewayne Wise out there patrolling the field, and Thursday afternoon he was busy protecting Mark Buehrle‘s perfect game [...]
