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History in the making

by DougJ|  July 28, 20099:32 pm| 69 Comments

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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.

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  1. 1.

    Linkmeister

    July 28, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    I think Johnny VanderMeer’s record is safe, but five more perfect innings ought to worry his ghost some.

  2. 2.

    gex

    July 28, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    Sigh. And he’s extending his perfect innings against my Twins.

  3. 3.

    cleek

    July 28, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    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…

  4. 4.

    Ben

    July 28, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Oh he just walked a dude.

  5. 5.

    raholco

    July 28, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    Just gave up a hit.

  6. 6.

    Will

    July 28, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Comment Fix.

  7. 7.

    Robin G.

    July 28, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Buehrle and his perfect innings can bite me. He sold his soul, anyway.

  8. 8.

    bvac

    July 28, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    What just happened.

  9. 9.

    Robin G.

    July 28, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    The Twins remembered not to swing at the first pitch.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 28, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    The A’s just scored 3 runs off Papelbon in the 9th, HAHAHA.

  11. 11.

    Robin G.

    July 28, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    I used to not care for Papelbon, but then I saw him riverdancing on the field and he grew on me.

  12. 12.

    PDXChria

    July 28, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    One heck of a streak though by Buehrle.

  13. 13.

    ice9

    July 28, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    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

  14. 14.

    we can be heroes

    July 28, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    comments test

  15. 15.

    Cat Lady

    July 28, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    @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.

  16. 16.

    ice9

    July 28, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    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

  17. 17.

    Robin G.

    July 28, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    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.

  18. 18.

    DougJ

    July 28, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    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.

  19. 19.

    lethargytartare

    July 28, 2009 at 11:23 pm

    one more game and the Sox can go back to playing baseball instead of the comedy show they alway take to the rollerdome.

  20. 20.

    MikeJ

    July 28, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Lowrie scores!

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    July 28, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    @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.

  22. 22.

    Ash

    July 28, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    Ok, this isn’t an open thread, but holy shit, is that SERIOUSLY Orly Taitz on Colbert right now?

    My mind is bending.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Mary

    July 28, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    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.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 28, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    @ 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.

  25. 25.

    KG

    July 29, 2009 at 12:19 am

    I hate the St Louis Cardinals, that is all.

  26. 26.

    AdaLovelace

    July 29, 2009 at 12:29 am

    css fix

  27. 27.

    Cat Lady

    July 29, 2009 at 12:34 am

    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.

  28. 28.

    Martin

    July 29, 2009 at 12:39 am

    Ok, this isn’t an open thread, but holy shit, is that SERIOUSLY Orly Taitz on Colbert right now?

    True crazy is when you have no clue that you’re crazy.

  29. 29.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 12:41 am

    @KG: I’m fairly sure they hate you back. That is all. (just making sure making sure my cookie is still engaged)

  30. 30.

    KG

    July 29, 2009 at 12:50 am

    @29: eh, I can live with that… just being frustrated by the Dodgers inability to score runs in the gateway city.

  31. 31.

    Ash

    July 29, 2009 at 12:58 am

    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.

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    July 29, 2009 at 1:04 am

    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.

  33. 33.

    Martin

    July 29, 2009 at 1:16 am

    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.

    It really was her: http://www.OrlyTaitzEsq.com/blog1/

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 29, 2009 at 1:29 am

    @ 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).

  35. 35.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 1:32 am

    @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.

  36. 36.

    Jared's Foe

    July 29, 2009 at 1:34 am

    CSS me baby.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 29, 2009 at 1:36 am

    @ 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.

  38. 38.

    Charon

    July 29, 2009 at 1:50 am

    @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.

  39. 39.

    KG

    July 29, 2009 at 2:00 am

    @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.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 29, 2009 at 2:01 am

    @ 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.

  41. 41.

    p.a.

    July 29, 2009 at 2:04 am

    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.

  42. 42.

    Linkmeister

    July 29, 2009 at 2:07 am

    @Robin G.: Sigh. I miss bat-girl.

  43. 43.

    tammanycall

    July 29, 2009 at 2:10 am

    I have a comment cookie but the site’s still weird.
    Photos:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28970415@N06/3768398592/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28970415@N06/3767598155/

  44. 44.

    Linkmeister

    July 29, 2009 at 2:11 am

    @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.

  45. 45.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 2:16 am

    @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’!

  46. 46.

    KG

    July 29, 2009 at 2:19 am

    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…

  47. 47.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 2:26 am

    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!

  48. 48.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 2:27 am

    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!

  49. 49.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 2:28 am

    Pardon the double post. I just got in a hurry.

  50. 50.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 2:30 am

    Or is it just me?

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 29, 2009 at 2:46 am

    I’m here and I’m on open thread but going to sleep soon (I hope).

  52. 52.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 3:05 am

    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

  53. 53.

    FarWest

    July 29, 2009 at 4:03 am

    Wow, what a mess.

  54. 54.

    Ash Can

    July 29, 2009 at 8:32 am

    @cleek:

    perfect games are pretty dull to watch

    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:

    John just posted an open thread and all hell broke loose.

    Boy howdy. I came here this morning and whoa! Fuxx0red! Never a dull moment here at the Juice.

  55. 55.

    Joey Maloney

    July 29, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Comment fix?

  56. 56.

    Joey Maloney

    July 29, 2009 at 8:37 am

    Comment no fix. :-(

  57. 57.

    Comrade Mary

    July 29, 2009 at 8:37 am

    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.

  58. 58.

    ihop

    July 29, 2009 at 8:46 am

    i need a cookie

  59. 59.

    Fulcanelli

    July 29, 2009 at 9:08 am

    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.

  60. 60.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 9:11 am

    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).

  61. 61.

    2th&nayle

    July 29, 2009 at 9:13 am

    Comment fix. Sort of.

  62. 62.

    brad

    July 29, 2009 at 9:14 am

    seeing if a comment fixes the web site appearance

  63. 63.

    brad

    July 29, 2009 at 9:16 am

    adding a comment worked. the site appearance is back to what to what it was.

  64. 64.

    A Mom Anon

    July 29, 2009 at 9:24 am

    @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.

  65. 65.

    james low

    July 29, 2009 at 9:26 am

    comment for a cookie

  66. 66.

    gex

    July 29, 2009 at 9:54 am

    @AdaLovelace: Sweet handle.

  67. 67.

    Tax Analyst

    July 29, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    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.

  68. 68.

    Linkmeister

    July 29, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    @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).

  69. 69.

    Julia Grey

    July 29, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    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!!!!

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