Mark Buehrle (live game feed):
Consecutive perfect innings pitched
* 14.1 – Mark Buehrle, Chicago White Sox – July 18 through July 28, 2009
Props to the wiki guy who kept this up to date.
Update. And it’s over at 15.0 with a walk.
Update. And the hitless innings streak ends too.
Linkmeister
I think Johnny VanderMeer’s record is safe, but five more perfect innings ought to worry his ghost some.
gex
Sigh. And he’s extending his perfect innings against my Twins.
cleek
proud to say i was at that first game. and also… perfect games are pretty dull to watch, except for the perfect game part. three up, three down, three up, three down, three up, three down…
Ben
Oh he just walked a dude.
raholco
Just gave up a hit.
Will
Comment Fix.
Robin G.
Buehrle and his perfect innings can bite me. He sold his soul, anyway.
bvac
What just happened.
Robin G.
The Twins remembered not to swing at the first pitch.
Comrade Kevin
The A’s just scored 3 runs off Papelbon in the 9th, HAHAHA.
Robin G.
I used to not care for Papelbon, but then I saw him riverdancing on the field and he grew on me.
PDXChria
One heck of a streak though by Buehrle.
ice9
Ballgame. Buh-bye.
PS just shows how no hitters, perfect games, etc. are fluky and weird. I love the fact that a guy can throw a perfect game then get hit like normal (that’s still pretty good.)
PS read on Howler about Bunning’s no-hitter, then PG. Noticed that he hit the AL MVP, Boston’s Jackie Jensen, twice in his no-hitter at Fenway…odd. Maybe Crazy Jim just didn’t like Jensen. I’ve got wicked stuff today, he thought, so I can plunk my enemies and get away with it. I wonder who else ever got hit twice while losing in a no-hitter.
ice
we can be heroes
comments test
Cat Lady
@Robin G.:
“then I saw him riverdancing on the field and he grew on me.”
Riverdancing to Shipping Up to Boston, with a Bud beer case on his head.
http://www.sittingstill.net/photos/07September28/092807_7560.jpg
Good times.
ice9
Twins almost never swing at the first pitch. Now that Torii plays on the Coast, that is.
Sox can’t win at the Dome because the hatred of Pierzynski is so strong. In fact, when the Sox come the entire stadium is powered by hatred electrodes implanted in the seats.
When the Yankees come, the entire city of Minneapolis is powered. Until about the middle of the seventh, when the hatred voltage peaks and the anguish voltage kicks in.
ice
Robin G.
Buehrle was, what, at 60 pitches after 5 innings? The Twins were swinging at things they couldn’t hit well. The Twins don’t do it often, but when they do, they all do it in the same game.
And I’ve never felt the Dome really hates AJ — or rather, they love to hate him. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard someone scream, “You’re a bum, AJ! We miss you!” It’s just the nature of Pierzynski.
We shall not speak of the F#*$&n’ Yankees.
DougJ
PS read on Howler about Bunning’s no-hitter, then PG. Noticed that he hit the AL MVP, Boston’s Jackie Jensen, twice in his no-hitter at Fenway…odd. Maybe Crazy Jim just didn’t like Jensen. I’ve got wicked stuff today, he thought, so I can plunk my enemies and get away with it. I wonder who else ever got hit twice while losing in a no-hitter.
I’ll have to check that out. Somerby’s gone nuts but he’s always got some good old remembrances all up in there.
lethargytartare
one more game and the Sox can go back to playing baseball instead of the comedy show they alway take to the rollerdome.
MikeJ
Lowrie scores!
burnspbesq
@DougJ:
Bunning’s PG was against the Mets on Father’s Day, 1964. I didn’t need him to turn into a wingnut dipshit Senator in order to hate his guts.
Four in a row. Gotta crawl before you walk. Someday we will start to get guys back off the DL. Wild card is the objective.
Ash
Ok, this isn’t an open thread, but holy shit, is that SERIOUSLY Orly Taitz on Colbert right now?
My mind is bending.
Comrade Mary
I’ll see your mind bending and raise you: the woman is SO batshit crazy that I flinched and switched to TVO (Ontario public television) at one point, where I found that Ta-Nehisi Coates, that sane and lovely man, being interviewed by Steve Paikin.
So I was turning to Orly, diving back to TNH, in quick succession, over and over again, as if I were gasping for air in a forest fire.
SiubhanDuinne
@ Ash 11:47 pm
No kidding. That was . . . surreal.
If it wasn’t Orly Taitz, it was a pretty convincing double with a Tina Fey-like SNL career in her future. But damn, that eye makeup. As someone once said about Dame Barbara Cartland, it looked like a couple of crows crashed into the White Cliffs of Dover.
KG
I hate the St Louis Cardinals, that is all.
AdaLovelace
css fix
Cat Lady
How, after watching Orly Taitz talking, would anyone think she’s OK in the head? She’s a train wreck derailing into a ditch where a plane crashed into a bridge collapse.
This is what the birther’s sound and look like? O RLY? Keep her on 24/7. Bachmann/Taitz 2012.
Martin
True crazy is when you have no clue that you’re crazy.
2th&nayle
@KG: I’m fairly sure they hate you back. That is all. (just making sure making sure my cookie is still engaged)
KG
@29: eh, I can live with that… just being frustrated by the Dodgers inability to score runs in the gateway city.
Ash
I honestly couldn’t tell if it was really her or just some elaborate Colbert-esque ruse. It seemed the audience was totally confused too. The whole thing was just so fucking weird.
MikeJ
Since the freepers are convinced that Colbert is actually conservative and is pulling a double reverse whammy on us by pretending to be a liberal posing as a conservative, they probably thing O RLY is a liberal agent provocateur.
Martin
It really was her: http://www.OrlyTaitzEsq.com/blog1/
SiubhanDuinne
@ Ash / 12:58 pm
There was something very odd about the camera shots. Except for (I think) one split-second long shot of them shaking hands at the end of the piece, it looked like one of those deals where each of them was taped separately and then the two “interview” bits were spliced together clumsily. If I can stay awake a little longer, I’ll watch the repeat to see if I can figure it out (that’s assuming the crazy doesn’t kill me first).
2th&nayle
@KG: Sorry! Just checked the box score. 10-Zip! No wonder you’re in a bad mood. Apologies! Dodgers can afford an off night though. Cards can’t.
Jared's Foe
CSS me baby.
SiubhanDuinne
@ SiubhanDuinne / 1:29 am
Meant to add, I think that might explain the weirdness of the audience reaction. If it were a spliced interview then there wouldn’t have been any continuity for the audience. Seems gratuitously cruel for Colbert to do that to them on top of subjecting them to the crazy dentistlawyerrealestateagent with the dead crow mascara.
Charon
@SiubhanDuinne:
Missed Colbert. Did Ms. Taitz do the same thing on tonight’s show that she did on CNN where when she blinked her eyelids didn’t move in tandem? That really freaked me out when I saw it.
KG
@35: true, this is the Dodgers’ first three game losing streak of the season (and hopefully the last). Just frustrating.
And finding out that Vin Scully is likely going to retire after next season does not make things better.
SiubhanDuinne
@ Charon / 1:50 am
Maybe that’s it! I didn’t see the CNN piece.
Colbert repeats beginning in just a couple of minutes (2:00 am eastern) if you want to check it out.
p.a.
O.T. but I have to get this out: saw a t-shirt on the bus today, picture of 5 mounted, armed
American Indians. Above pict in large script: HOMELAND SECURITY. Below pict in smaller script:
fighting terrorism since 1492.
Linkmeister
@Robin G.: Sigh. I miss bat-girl.
tammanycall
I have a comment cookie but the site’s still weird.
Photos:
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Linkmeister
@KG: Man. When I started making dinner it was 0-0 in the 5th. 2 1/2 hours later I turned ESPN back on and saw the score, 10-0 Cards, and thought “what happened??”
If Vinnie does retire after 2010, that would mean the end of 50 years of me listening to him. I first heard him teamed with Jerry Doggett in 1959 on KFI in LA.
2th&nayle
@p.a.: Ain’t that the truth! Best t-shirt I ever saw of that genre was a mounted warrior holding a compound bow above his head. The caption read “What If?” With all due respect to ‘Manifest Destiny’ and all that bullshit; all I can say is, ‘mores the pity’!
KG
Link – yeah, I did the same thing, only watching on gameday from the office. left, check the score later and did not want to check DT.
I’ve said a hundred times before, after my parents, it was Vin Scully that made me a Dodger fan and Chick Hearn that made me a Laker fan. I don’t want to let him go, but, all good things, I suppose…
2th&nayle
Danger! Danger! John just posted an open thread and all hell broke loose. Yikes! Looks like just late nighters may have to do with what we got!
2th&nayle
Danger! Danger! John just posted an open thread and all hell broke loose. Yikes! Looks like us late nighters may have to do with what we got!
2th&nayle
Pardon the double post. I just got in a hurry.
2th&nayle
Or is it just me?
SiubhanDuinne
I’m here and I’m on open thread but going to sleep soon (I hope).
2th&nayle
This is probably some kind of nefarious cyber hit to undermine the teachings of “Tunch the Great and Powerful”. You knew this had to come sooner or later. To show my devotion to the uber cat, I’ve decided to have a sandwich and a glass of milk, wash my face and take a nap. Good luck, John
FarWest
Wow, what a mess.
Ash Can
@cleek:
Not for me they’re not! No matter who’s pitching, I start to get nervous by the fifth inning. By the seventh, I’m a nervous wreck. By the ninth, I’m a basket case.
My mother and I were at Milt Pappas’s near-perfect game in 1972 (and yes, the ump should have given him that corner on that fourth ball). It was beyond exciting. It was as if the stands had been plugged into a giant power grid. That ballpark could have lit up the city and suburbs for a week. Years later, she and I were at a Single-A minor league game in Florida and saw Felix Rodriguez throw a no-hitter for the Vero Beach Dodgers. I was so excited in the late innings I could barely stay seated, and my mother shooed me away and made me stand back on the concourse because she was nervous enough already and I was making her crazy. Good times.
I may be a die-hard Cubs fan, but I think it’s terrific that Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game (besides breaking the record for perfect innings).
@2th&nayle:
Boy howdy. I came here this morning and whoa! Fuxx0red! Never a dull moment here at the Juice.
Joey Maloney
Comment fix?
Joey Maloney
Comment no fix. :-(
Comrade Mary
Looks like John yanked the most recent open thread that was skewing the site. Everything looks good now, but hopefully John can bring the thread, Willie and his own fine self back soon.
ihop
i need a cookie
Fulcanelli
Yes, it appears the open thread John put up during his bout of insomnia last eve wound up in the same place as the month of December 2008 in Goldman Sachs’ accounting records.
But it looks like BJ is back, albeit in a slightly hobbled form (no preview, no edit, no comment formatting thingie). You are now free to move about the cabin.
2th&nayle
Thought I’d swing back through and peruse the damage. Looks like John’s back to the original CSS prob. Heh, I have no idea what that means (being the HTML moron that I am).
2th&nayle
Comment fix. Sort of.
brad
seeing if a comment fixes the web site appearance
brad
adding a comment worked. the site appearance is back to what to what it was.
A Mom Anon
@p.a.: I have that shirt,I got it from a company called Northern Sun. I also have one that says Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society with a cute little flower logo.
james low
comment for a cookie
gex
@AdaLovelace: Sweet handle.
Tax Analyst
Linkmeister said:
“@KG: Man. When I started making dinner it was 0-0 in the 5th. 2 1/2 hours later I turned ESPN back on and saw the score, 10-0 Cards, and thought “what happened??”
If Vinnie does retire after 2010, that would mean the end of 50 years of me listening to him. I first heard him teamed with Jerry Doggett in 1959 on KFI in LA.”
Yeah, the roof freaking caved in on Billingsley in the 6th. Walked a bunch of guys, then gave up a barage of singles. Next thing you know it was like 6-0. Cards caught everything that came within leaping or diving distance after a throwing error in the first. That kid shortstop is a damned acrobatic vacuum-cleaner.
I moved to L.A. in March, 1959, just in time for a then 9-year old kid to get to see the Dodgers win a dog-fight of a pennant race in a play-off (1 game, I believe, I think it was either an extra-inning or 9th inning score that won it) over the Braves, then take the Chisox in the World Series. Dad took me to Roy Campanella night, too. 92,000+ there for that exhibition game! Campanella never even played out here, but the people still came out for his night out of respect. Yeah, Vinnie is the greatest. Nowadays I hear him make a mistake every once in a while (he kept calling Furcal “Tejada” in a game recent against the Astros, I was hoping someone on the broadcast team would tip him so he could stop doing it, but hey, if I can get around without drooling at his age I’ll be happy). Chickie was right there, too, until his death a few years back. Dodgers, Lakers – L.A. might as well have been paradise as far as I was concerned.
Linkmeister
@Tax Analyst: We moved south from Monterey to San Pedro that year, then crosstown to Westwood. Left in 1962 (Aaaaargh, Ed Roebuck & Stan Williams!) but I never left Dodgers fandom (the lousy quality of teams the Senators put out in DC kept me from switching allegiances).
Julia Grey
It’s a jinx to say out loud that a game might be a no-hitter while it is in progress.
You people RUINED IT!!!!