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How many people remember
Mark Buehrle throwing a perfect game in May? Probably not
to many people realized such an amazing feat was accomplished.
It was overshadowed by the bugs the league was working out
at the time.
On May 21, 2002, Mark Buehrle
took the hill against the Montreal Expos. Buehrle had to
battle a lineup with Sammy Sosa, Bernie Williams, Luis Gonzalez,
and Craig Biggio to name a few in it. He mowed them all
down though in the game of a lifetime, and the first ever
Perfect Game and No-Hitter in the FPBL. Buehrle did it with
a mix of 6 strikeouts, 7 ground balls, and 14 flyouts. He
threw only 104 pitches, and 76 of them were for strikes.
After the game, Buehrle
had this to say, "That was simply amazing. I have never
had such good command of my pitches. I felt like I could
hit any spot I wanted to. My cutter was my best pitch today.
That was my out pitch and I was getting all the tough outs
using that pitch. I can't begin to describe the feeling.
I am just going to sit back and soak it all in." Manager
Bobby Cox was also very happy about it, but he had a bigger
picture in mind, "Mark went out there and carried us
today. He did something that only a few have ever done.
He was perfect. More importantly though, we won a big game
in the division. We are going to have a tight race this
year and every game means something."
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