AirScott Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 I feel cheated. The question was, Besides Kenny Rogers, who are the other 3 lefty pitchers to throw perfect games? The answer I came up with was David Wells, Sandy Koufax and Randy Johnson (who threw one in 2004). The answer had no Johnson, but did have Tom Browning. Am I the only one who feels slighted by this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briguy27 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 I feel cheated. The question was, Besides Kenny Rogers, who are the other 3 lefty pitchers to throw perfect games? The answer I came up with was David Wells, Sandy Koufax and Randy Johnson (who threw one in 2004). The answer had no Johnson, but did have Tom Browning. Am I the only one who feels slighted by this? Wasn't the Unit's only a no-hitter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 QUOTE(briguy27 @ Jul 25, 2007 -> 09:08 PM) Wasn't the Unit's only a no-hitter? Nope. Perfect Game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirScott Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 He had thrown a no-hitter in 1990, or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearSox Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 QUOTE(AirScott @ Jul 25, 2007 -> 09:05 PM) I feel cheated. The question was, Besides Kenny Rogers, who are the other 3 lefty pitchers to throw perfect games? The answer I came up with was David Wells, Sandy Koufax and Randy Johnson (who threw one in 2004). The answer had no Johnson, but did have Tom Browning. Am I the only one who feels slighted by this? same here. I was watching with my brother and there was no randy johnson, and I was like wtf, and it made me drop everything and go look it up. More great work by the white sox research staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pants Rowland Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 QUOTE(BearSox @ Jul 25, 2007 -> 11:18 PM) same here. I was watching with my brother and there was no randy johnson, and I was like wtf, and it made me drop everything and go look it up. More great work by the white sox research staff. Where is StatManDu when you need him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan562004 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Exactly what I thought too. It was against Atlanta and on TBS I think (or it was on ESPN) because I remember watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controlled Chaos Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Johnson K's 13 in perfect effort ATLANTA (AP) -- Randy Johnson had pretty much done it all -- Cy Young Awards, a no-hitter, strikeout records, a World Series championship. Randy Johnson pitched the 17th perfect game in major league history, dominating the Braves with a fastball that reached 97-98 mph and a hard-veering slider. Here is perfection by the numbers: Total pitches: 117 Strikes: 87 Balls: 30 Batters faced: 27 Velocity of last pitch: 98 mph, striking out Eddie Perez. Strikeouts: 13 Number of batters in which he reached 3-ball count: 1 Number of batters in which he reached 2-ball count: 8 Swings and misses: 28 Foul balls: 31 Pitches that Johnny Estrada saw in three at-bats: 22 Estrada foul balls: 13 Total pitches in the seventh inning: 14 Total pitches in seventh clocked at 97 or 98 mph: 6 Only one thing was missing in his brilliant career, that rarest of pitching feats. At the ripe ol' age of 40, the Big Unit took care of that, too. Johnson became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0 Tuesday night. "A game like this was pretty special," said Johnson, a five-time Cy Young Award winner. "It doesn't come along very often." It was the 17th perfect game in major league history, the 15th since the modern era began in 1900 and the first since the New York Yankees' David Cone against Montreal on July 18, 1999. "Everything he's done up to this point pales in comparison," Arizona manager Bob Brenly said. Johnson struck out 13 and went to three balls on just one hitter -- Johnny Estrada in the second inning. Estrada fouled off three straight 3-2 pitches before going down swinging. Late in the game, Johnson sat stoically in the dugout, staring at the ground with his eyes closed, appearing to be almost asleep. "It didn't faze me," the left-hander said. "Winning the game was the biggest, most important thing." His manager was a lot more nervous. From the sixth inning on, Brenly remained frozen in the same spot -- sitting on the bat rack, tapping Matt Kata's bat with his knuckles while following one of baseball's oldest superstitions. "This is one of those nights where a superior athlete was on top of his game," Brenly said. "There was a tremendous rhythm out there. His focus, his concentration, his stuff, everything was as good as it could possibly be." Cy Young, then 37, had been the oldest to throw a perfect game, doing it in 1904. Johnson sure didn't act his age, getting stronger as the game went along on a pleasantly warm night in Atlanta. "Not bad for being 40 years old," he said. "Everything was locked in." While it was the first perfect game of Johnson's career, it was his second no-hitter. He no-hit Detroit for Seattle on June 2, 1990, walking six. "That was far from perfect," he recalled. "I was a very young pitcher who didn't have any idea where the ball was going. I was far from being a polished pitcher. Fourteen years later, I've come a long way as far as knowing what I want to do." It was the longest span between a pair of no-hitters by a pitcher in baseball history. Former teammate Curt Schilling, who teamed with Johnson to lead the Diamondbacks to the World Series championship in 2001, watched the final two innings on a television at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. Schilling now plays for the Boston Red Sox, who had a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. "Guys that play the game at that level ... do things other people don't dream of doing," Schilling said. "They push themselves. That's what he's done." Johnson is back on his game after enduring an injury plagued, 6-8 season in 2003. "He's been pitching great," Schilling said. "I just want to find all those people that were talking about the end of his career last winter." Appropriately, Johnson struck out the final batter, pinch-hitter Eddie Perez, with a 98 mph fastball. Johnson pumped his fist and raised his glove in the air, but his teammates seemed even more excited. He started to put out his right hand when Robby Hammock arrived at the mound, but the young catcher -- a foot shorter than Johnson -- gave the pitcher a bear hug instead. Within seconds, Johnson was mobbed by the rest of his teammates. "He could smell it at the end," Estrada said. The crowd of 23,381 at Turner Field gave Johnson a standing ovation as he walked slowly toward the dugout. He waved in several directions before disappearing down the tunnel. "Randy! Randy! Randy!" the fans chanted. He became only the fifth pitcher to throw no-hitters in both the National and American leagues, joining Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo Nomo and Nolan Ryan. The crowd sensed history in the making when J.D. Drew grounded out to end the eighth. The Atlanta fans gave Johnson (4-4) a standing ovation as he trudged off the mound, then another when he batted in the ninth. While the Braves hit several balls hard off Johnson, the closest thing to a hit was a slow roller by Johnson's Atlanta counterpart, Mike Hampton, in the sixth. Alex Cintron scooped up the ball and threw out Hampton by a half-step. Johnson lingered near the third-base line, giving Cintron a pat with the glove as he ran off the field. Cintron also was the offensive hero, driving in Arizona's first run and scoring the other. There were few other close calls against Johnson. Atlanta's first hitter, Jesse Garcia, led off with a bunt toward first and tried to reach with a headfirst slide, but Shea Hillenbrand managed to make the tag. In the fifth, Drew hit a liner toward the right-field corner, only to have Danny Bautista make a basket catch. "This was a legitimate perfect game, any way you slice it," Estrada said. Johnson threw the first no-hitter in Seattle history and now he's pulled off the same feat for a different team. This was the first no-hitter for Arizona, which joined the major leagues in 1998. The Braves, who started a makeshift infield because of injuries to Marcus Giles and Rafael Furcal, were no-hit for the first time in 25 years. Ken Forsch of Houston did it on April 7, 1979. In two straight games, short-handed Atlanta has endured dominating pitching performances. Milwaukee's Ben Sheets struck out 18 Sunday. Now this. "It was a situation where a dominant pitcher caught a struggling team," Atlanta's Chipper Jones said. Johnson's fastball reached the upper 90s in the late innings. Andruw Jones lost his bat trying to catch up with a heater in the eighth. Johnson dominated the Braves with two pitches, augmenting his fastball with a devastating slider. He didn't bother much with his split-finger fastball. The Diamondbacks snapped a five-game losing streak in which they scored only eight runs. Johnson took one of those losses, losing 1-0 to the New York Mets. In fact, Arizona had scored only one run total in Johnson's previous two starts. They weren't much better this time, but it didn't matter. Hampton (0-5) pitched his best game of the season, allowing eight hits. It didn't matter -- he's off to the worst start of his career. Arizona went ahead 1-0 after Hampton retired the first two hitters in the second. Danny Bautista singled to right and came all the way around to score on Cintron's double to the gap in left-center. The Diamondbacks added another run in the seventh, this time set up Cintron's double down the left-field line. With two outs, Chad Tracy lined an RBI single up the middle. Notes: Sixteen perfect games have occurred during the regular season. Don Larsen of the Yankees pitched his in the 1956 World Series. ... Hampton has lost five straight decisions for only the second time in his career. He also lost five in a row at the end of the 2001 and the beginning of 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controlled Chaos Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Pitcher Date Game Cy Young (BOS) RHP, 37 3 K May 5, 1904 Philadelphia A's, 0 at Boston Americans, 3 Venue: Huntington Avenue Grounds, day game Attendance: 10,267 Time: 1:23 Caught by: Lou Criger Umpired by: Frank Dwyer Box score Addie Joss (CLE) RHP, 28 74 pitches, 3 K October 2, 1908 Chicago White Sox, 0 at Cleveland Naps, 1 Venue: League Park, day game Attendance: 10,598 Time: 1:29 Caught by: Nig Clarke Umpired by: Tommy Connolly Box score Charlie Robertson (CHW) RHP, 26 90 pitches, 6 K April 30, 1922 Chicago White Sox, 2 at Detroit Tigers, 0 Venue: Navin Field, day game Attendance: 25,000 Time: 1:55 Caught by: Ray Schalk Umpired by: Dick Nallin Box score Don Larsen (NYY) RHP, 27 97 pitches, 7 K October 8, 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers, 0 at New York Yankees, 2 Venue: Yankee Stadium, day game (Game 5 of the World Series) Attendance: 64,519 Time: 2:06 Caught by: Yogi Berra Umpired by: Babe Pinelli Box score and play-by-play Jim Bunning (PHI) RHP, 32 90 pitches, 10 K June 21, 1964 Philadelphia Phillies, 6 at New York Mets, 0 Venue: Shea Stadium, day game (first game of doubleheader) Attendance: 32,026 Time: 2:19 Caught by: Gus Triandos Umpired by: Ed Sudol Box score and play-by-play Sandy Koufax (LAD) LHP, 29 113 pitches, 14 K September 9, 1965 Chicago Cubs, 0 at Los Angeles Dodgers, 1 Venue: Dodger Stadium, night game Attendance: 29,139 Time: 1:43 Caught by: Jeff Torborg Umpired by: Ed Vargo See also: Sandy Koufax's perfect game Box score and play-by-play Catfish Hunter (OAK) RHP, 22 107 pitches, 11 K May 8, 1968 Minnesota Twins, 0 at Oakland A's, 4 Venue: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, night game Attendance: 6,298 Time: 2:28 Caught by: Jim Pagliaroni Umpired by: Jerry Neudecker Box score and play-by-play Len Barker (CLE) RHP, 25 103 pitches, 11 K May 15, 1981 Toronto Blue Jays, 0 at Cleveland Indians, 3 Venue: Cleveland Stadium, night game Attendance: 7,290 Time: 2:09 Caught by: Ron Hassey (1) Umpired by: Rich Garcia Box score and play-by-play Mike Witt (CAL) RHP, 24 94 pitches, 10 K September 30, 1984 California Angels, 1 at Texas Rangers, 0 Venue: Arlington Stadium, day game Attendance: 8,375 Time: 1:49 Caught by: Bob Boone Umpired by: Greg Kosc Box score and play-by-play Tom Browning (CIN) LHP, 28 102 pitches, 7 K September 16, 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers, 0 at Cincinnati Reds, 1 Venue: Riverfront Stadium, night game Attendance: 16,591 Time: 1:51 Caught by: Jeff Reed Umpired by: Jim Quick Box score and play-by-play Dennis Martínez (MON) RHP, 36 95 pitches, 5 K July 28, 1991 Montreal Expos, 2 at Los Angeles Dodgers, 0 Venue: Dodger Stadium, day game Attendance: 45,560 Time: 2:14 Caught by: Ron Hassey (2) Umpired by: Larry Poncino Box score and play-by-play Kenny Rogers (TEX) LHP, 29 98 pitches, 8 K July 28, 1994 California Angels, 0 at Texas Rangers, 4 Venue: The Ballpark in Arlington, night game Attendance: 46,581 Time: 2:08 Caught by: Ivan Rodriguez Umpired by: Ed Bean Box score and play-by-play David Wells (NYY) LHP, 34 120 pitches, 11 K May 17, 1998 Minnesota Twins, 0 at New York Yankees, 4 Venue: Yankee Stadium, day game Attendance: 49,820 Time: 2:40 Caught by: Jorge Posada Umpired by: Tim McClelland Box score and play-by-play David Cone (NYY) RHP, 36 88 pitches, 10 K July 18, 1999 Montreal Expos, 0 at New York Yankees, 6 Venue: Yankee Stadium, day game Attendance: 41,930 Time: 2:16 (not including a 33-minute rain delay) Caught by: Joe Girardi Umpired by: Ted Barrett Box score Randy Johnson (ARI) LHP, 40 117 pitches, 13 K May 18, 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks, 2 at Atlanta Braves, 0 Venue: Turner Field, night game Attendance: 23,381 Time: 2:13 Caught by: Robby Hammock Umpired by: Greg Gibson Box score and play-by-play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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