Perfect-Shmerfect

June 18, 2012

Last week, Matt Cain tossed the Giants’ first perfect game in franchise history. This was immediately compared with the one by the White Sox’s Philip Humber’s against the Oakland As in April, which may have gotten assistance from the home plate umpire on a swinging/held up third strike to end the game.

The New Yorker published this piece about how no-hitters (and near misses) do not necessarily prove a pitcher’s overall quality in its “Sporting Scene” column, much to the umbrage of Baseball Nation’s Rob Neyer. The piece also tries to refute the notion that –given the preponderance of no-hitters and strikeouts — we’re in a “new age of pitching.” Seems Neyer was a tad upset about their comparisons to some hurlers from the 1980s, most notably Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost 3,476 no-hitters with two outs in the ninth (or so it seemed).

"What, me worry?"

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