Perfect!
It's one of those boxscores that has baseball fans' eyes lighting up like Times Square on New Year's Eve, and even though I didn't see it, this line:
AB 27 R 0 H 0 BB 0 E 0
has me grinning from ear to ear 4,000 miles away in an office building in Paris.
If Randy Johnson was looking for a way to prove those who said he was washed-up wrong, he couldn't have done better than this. He threw 117 pitches over the 9 innings, 87 for strikes, and the whole thing was over in 2 hours and 13 minutes.
I was talking to a friend about baseball last night and repeating my old mantra about the game - "You never know when you might see something you've never seen before" - and this is the perfect example: two teams languishing at, or close to, the bottom of their divisions, both with losing records (Atlanta 17-19, Arizona 14-23 prior to last night's game), and yet the game will nonetheless be talked about for years to come and will go into the record books as the 17th perfect game in history.
I've always liked the Big Unit, even when he was single-handedly crushing the Yankees in the 2001 World Series. I like the contradiction of a 6'8" flame-thrower who is scary and intimidating on the mound, yet reserved and awkward off it. This is definitely a game I'll be adding to my collection of downloads, one that I'll be able to dig out from time to time over the cold, baseball-free winter months to remind myself exactly why this is such a great game.
AB 27 R 0 H 0 BB 0 E 0
has me grinning from ear to ear 4,000 miles away in an office building in Paris.
If Randy Johnson was looking for a way to prove those who said he was washed-up wrong, he couldn't have done better than this. He threw 117 pitches over the 9 innings, 87 for strikes, and the whole thing was over in 2 hours and 13 minutes.
I was talking to a friend about baseball last night and repeating my old mantra about the game - "You never know when you might see something you've never seen before" - and this is the perfect example: two teams languishing at, or close to, the bottom of their divisions, both with losing records (Atlanta 17-19, Arizona 14-23 prior to last night's game), and yet the game will nonetheless be talked about for years to come and will go into the record books as the 17th perfect game in history.
I've always liked the Big Unit, even when he was single-handedly crushing the Yankees in the 2001 World Series. I like the contradiction of a 6'8" flame-thrower who is scary and intimidating on the mound, yet reserved and awkward off it. This is definitely a game I'll be adding to my collection of downloads, one that I'll be able to dig out from time to time over the cold, baseball-free winter months to remind myself exactly why this is such a great game.
posted by Iain at
09:56
<< Home