Mark Buehrle is Perfect
Let me start by saying that I’m not a baseball fan. I know, Unamerican and all that. I used to be a huge fan. In fact, when I lived in Texas my wife and I used to love to go watch the Rangers. The old Rangers, Charlie Hough, Nolan Ryan, Bobby Valentine in the dugout. Those were the days. As a matter of fact, one year we bought tickets to EVERY home Friday night game. It was our date night.
Then, they went on strike. Bunch of men playing a boys game, making millions of dollars a year and they went on strike. So we did what everyone should have done. We went on strike. I haven’t attended a ballgame, or watched one on television for almost 20 years now.
I still appreciate the game, I’m just not going to waste my time on it.
One thing I do appreciate though is perfection. That’s why I enjoyed it when a friend sent me this video. In case you missed it, Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game today against the Tampa Bay Rays.
What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, “A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher or pitchers retire all twenty-seven opposing batters in order.”
Only 18 guys in baseball history have ever done it. That’s pretty impressive even if you don’t follow, or even care for, baseball.
In case you missed seeing the game, thanks to YouTube, here’s EVERY out, all 27 of them, in Buehrle’s perfect game.
