Last night, Chicago White Sox Pitcher Mark Buehrle pitched the first no-hitter of the season, and almost made it a perfect game as well:
CHICAGO — Mark Buehrle was pretty cool about his no-hitter. Until he had three outs to go. “You don’t want to make that one mistake and give up a hit,” he said. “I could feel my knees a little bit, a little shaken, a little extra adrenaline going for the ninth inning.” Imagine how jittery Buehrle might have been if he was still working on a perfect game.
The Chicago White Sox left-hander faced the minimum 27 batters in a 6-0 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night, picking off the only runner he walked and throwing the first no-hitter of the major league season.
Working quickly and efficiently in a dominant performance, Buehrle allowed just one baserunner in Chicago’s first no-hitter since 1991. He walked Sammy Sosa with one out in the fifth, then promptly picked him off first base.
“I can’t believe I did it,” Buehrle said. “Perfect game would have been nice, too.”
Yea it would’ve been. There have only been fifteen perfect games pitched in the modern history of Major Leage Baseball. The last one was back on May 18, 2004 when Randy Johnson did it at Turner Field against the Braves.
