Early Saturday morning, surfing the free agents, he stumbled upon one Phil Humber with a matchup against the Seattle Mariners.
On paper, the matchup looked great, so he picked him up.
Little did he know, the matchup looked even better on TV.
Humber pitched the 21st perfect game in MLB history and second in JLB history. The first in the JLB was Roy Halladay’s in 2010.
There were two other perfect games during the JLB era — Mark Buehrle and Dallas Braden — but both were on the bench when they did it. That bench? The Bombers.
He’s probably happy he didn’t pick up Humber to make it a hat trick of big-time benchings.
Whereas the Bombers are hoping to start the next perfect game pitcher, I’m just looking for a chance to watch it.
I wasn’t watching the game — not that I could — so I again missed out on a chance to watch a perfect game. I missed Roy Halladay’s because the Flyers were playing a Stanley Cup Final game against the Blackhawks and I couldn’t watch this one because FOX blocks out MLB.tv games on Saturday afternoons — which is a whole different argument/column.
Still, the Yankees-Red Sox game was 9-0 so I wasn’t paying much attention and I didn’t know it happened until I turned the Yankees game back on when it was 9-8. So in that time frame, I had missed a finish to a perfect game and a comeback. Crazy.
Nevertheless, I was still able to log on to MLB.tv later than night and watch the archive of the perfect game. I watched that final inning and what an exciting ninth it was. Humber took the first batter to a 3-0 count before battling back to get him. And then, with two outs, he gets the strikeout, but the ball gets away from A.J. Pierzynski, who ran as fast as he could to get it to first.
Man, that would have been an awful way to lose a perfect game.
But, Pierzynski was there to back him up — something that Mark Buehrle didn’t have. I initially thought about how crazy it was that Pierzynski was the second catcher to catch a perfect game, but then I looked it up and saw that he was on the bench the day of Buehrle’s perfect game. Instead, it was Ramon Castro catching the gem.
This time, Pierzynski wasn’t watching.
Could you imagine if he was given an off-day again? Boy, that would have been an awful feeling — like benching two perfect games, right Bombers?
Week 2 Recap, Awards
I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally start playing my division. They’re pulling away from me and I’m not even losing.
The Outs have had a tremendous start and he had a pair of last week’s big bats in Freddie Freeman (11-for-23, 3 HRs, 14 RBIs, 2 SAC last week) and Adam Dun (7-for-27, 2 HRs, 10 RBIs).
Still, he didn’t have the best overall offensive week, batting just .260.
Big League Choo earned that honor, batting .304 with 17 homers, 47 RBIs and 27 runs scored. Winning 10 out of 12 batting categories, Choo disposed of the Bad News Bears 15-6-3.
That’s why Big League Choo is the Week 2 Offensive Team of the Week.
On the other side of the categories, the Gameday Gamblers were the League’s best, winning the Week 2 Pitchers of the Week Award.
You can keep track of the winners and see how many stars you have earned throughout the season by checking the trophy standings here: Leaderboard
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