How rare is that? It’s the 21st perfect game in MLB history.
The White Sox beat the Mariners 4-0.
Saturday night baseball: Halladay’s no-hitter VIDEO
Even my mom was talking about this one:
Halladay throws no-hitter as Phils win playoff opener
Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in postseason history. He stands beside the Yankees’ Don Larsen, who pitched a perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, as the only ones to do it.
Here’s the video, via TigerHawk,
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The World Series post, for mom
My mom suggested I do a post on the World Series. Since I don’t know a thing about baseball and it’s best to listen to one’s mom, here’s a Power Line analysis of the series.
Living in Princeton, we are geographically halfway between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. I’ve been to Yankee games (which I treated as a social ocasion), but never to a Phillies game and have no preference. Good luck to both teams.
Jonathan Sanchez: Near-perfect
My mom’s the baseball fan in the family, so here it is, Mom:
Jonathan Sanchez threw the major leagues’ first no hits-no runs game, with only one error in the 7th inning. As it turns out,
The 26-year-old left-hander returned to the rotation after a nearly three-week demotion to the bullpen – and he only got the call because 303-game winner Randy Johnson went on the disabled list earlier this week.
Follow the links at MLB above and you can see the play-by-play.
Nice narration by a young sportscaster in this YouTube,