MLB's 21st Perfect Game

I apologize for the lack of posts. Have been pretty busy and focusing on some other things. Now that I have some time again, hopefully more posts will follow.

 As you might have read or seen allover sports center a man by the name of Phil Humber threw MLB's 21st perfect game and the first perfect game of the 2012 season. Phil Humber's 21st perfect game on Saturday came when he shut down the Mariners offense or lack there of in a 4-0 win.

Baseball fan's these days have been spoiled while witnessing several perfect games in the last couple of years. There was a point in time when baseball went 42 years in between perfect games. Humber's perfect game was almost ruined on the final out of the game when Brendan Ryan failed to check his swing on a 3-2 count on a ball that got away from AJ Pierzynski. Instead of running it out and maybe ruining the perfect game, he argued the call with home plate umpire. Humber had never thrown a complete game prior to throwing his perfect game.

Here is a little bit about Phil Humber and his path to perfection. Humber had Tommy John surgery before his career even started. He bounced around quite a bit before he even got a shot in the majors. Humber was one of four prospects the Met's traded to Minnesota for Johan Santana in February 2008. That was really the only thing that got Humber on Sports center being traded for Santana. He was drafted No. 3 overall by the New York Mets in 2004, one pick after Justin Verlander went to the Detroit Tigers. But Humber was sidelined by elbow-ligament replacement surgery the following year and didn't win a game in the majors until 2010 with Kansas City. Humber struck out nine and threw his perfect game in just 96 pitches. A little bit better than his first start of the season that was 5 1/3 innings and threw 115 pitches in a no decision against Baltimore.

 Congratulations to another out of nowhere perfect game buy a pitcher very few have heard of. No matter what he does the rest of his career he has a place in the record books.