Philip Humber retires from baseball https://t.co/qEUTMrkKmK pic.twitter.com/Yej8s1Nn3Y
— Gaslamp Ball (@gaslampball) March 29, 2016
Philip Humber threw a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox, four years ago today.
On April 21, 2012, Humber blanked the Seattle Mariners for a 4-0 win at Safeco Field, retiring every Mariners batter he faced.
Twenty-seven consecutive outs almost weren’t enough. Humber won the game on a strikeout of pinch hitter Brendan Ryan, but it required a 2-3 putout to put the game in the books. Humber’s low-and-outside pitch got away from catcher A.J. Pierzynski, and Ryan paused to argue the call with home plate umpirer Paul Runge before running to first base. Pierzynski threw the ball to first and Humber had his perfecto.
Humber, the New York Mets’ first-round draft in 2004, made his first Major League start in September 2007 against the Washington Nationals. He was traded to the Minnesota Twins in the Johan Santana deal, but his next start wasn’t until August 2010 as a Kansas City Royals pitcher. When Humber threw his perfect game, he became the seventh ex-Met to do so (See the archive of our No-hitters … after they left the Mets page. He retired this season after failing to make the San Diego Padres’ roster.
Santana, of course, finally broke the Mets’ curse less than two months later.
(Feature photo Daytime Safeco Field by Richard Eriksson under license CC BY 2.0)
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