You gotta see DeWayne Wise make the 9th-inning catch that saved Mark Buehrle’s perfect game today. 48 second video.
Only the 16th perfect game in major-league history.
BTW “Ian Kinsler accomplished a feat so rare on Sunday, it only happened four times previously in major-league history.”
That was a pretty amazing catch.
Vaguely reminiscent of the catch Aaron Rowand made to save the Jonathan Sanchez no-hitter a few weeks back.
VERY similar actually.
Video here.
According to The Count, the five pitchers besides Buehrle who have thrown a perfect game and at least one other career no-hitter are all in the Hall of Fame, except for Randy Johnson who will be.
Cy Young
Addie Joss
Jim Bunning
Sandy Koufax
Randy Johnson
The Bats Blog has a list of all 18 perfect games (two were in 1880).