A full and hearty congratulations to Mark Buehrle for pitching a perfect game (no hits, no baserunners, no errors). This feat is exceedingly rare, happening only 18 times (including yesterday’s) in the history of baseball. To pitch a perfect game takes an entire team to pull together and demands great fielding to prevent a player from reaching base – DeWayne Wise’s outfield catch (and bobble!) was astonishing and great field work. Deadspin has a nice rundown, and I take a small bit of pleasure in the fact that 1) this didn’t happen while we were playing them (though, as the article says, this is such an amazing occurrence that there is no shame on being the losing team), and 2) A. J. Pierzynski was not the catcher. That guy and his stupid hair drive me insane.
In the meantime, the Twins have the remainder of a West Coast road trip to wrap up before coming back home to face the White Sox. Let’s hope that the team’s pitching staff remembers how to do its job, instead of doing things like blowing 10-run leads and giving up 16 runs in a game. That’s out of your system now, boys. It’s after the All-Star Break. It’s business time.
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